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Altman’s remarks in his tweet drew an overwhelmingly negative reaction.

“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”

Others called him a “f***ing psychopath” and “scum.”

“Nothing says ‘you’re being replaced’ quite like a heartfelt thank you from the guy doing the replacing,” one user wrote.

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[–] UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 58 minutes ago (1 children)

Hahahaha.. go fuck yourself, you miserable thief

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 2 points 54 minutes ago

This dude is an empty husk of a human being. Sim Notman

[–] aliser@lemmy.world 3 points 35 minutes ago

lets hope if robots take over they dispose of those useless ceos and billionaires

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 49 minutes ago

my (non technical boss) proudly declared they had "vibe coded a new landing page for our contact us page"

when you hit the submit button it downloaded the .ico of the website to the temp files and nothing else.

Perfect for a malicious code injection!

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 8 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

All these AI ceos seem to be getting pretty desperate these days, do they know something we don't

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 3 points 54 minutes ago* (last edited 54 minutes ago)

Yeah, they know that all they have is advanced predictive text and that if people see through the mysticism they're trying to project (about this predictive text on steroids being the emergence of a technogod), they're fucked.

[–] bpinyon@lemmy.zip 1 points 26 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago)

Unless I’m mistaken, it took programmers to code AI in the first place.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 28 minutes ago

Lol the "AI" that can write a functioning optimized software especially with niche stuff, i still have to see

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 40 minutes ago

Nah, Sam. I think it's your time that's soon over...

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

Incestuous sex pest Sam Altman?

[–] mghackerlady@leminal.space 1 points 14 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 points 3 minutes ago* (last edited 3 minutes ago)

His sister is suing him and says he sexually assaulted her for the better part of a decade.

[–] jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

Every programmer working on a problem right now knows that's complete bullshit.

That said, I would love for robots to take over all of our jobs. Just make sure they're working for all of us and not just the people at the top.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 27 minutes ago

Worked with playwright in C# .NET today and lol the "AIs" knew shit about it. Constantly mixed C# with JavaScript and Python code together and it was incoherent

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 3 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

lol There aren't even discussions happening about rules of robotics or anything along those lines. It's just a race into the unknown with no real sense of direction.

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 1 points 25 seconds ago

The human way

[–] slappyfuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

If I had to guess, I’d say LLMs are about 20 years away from creating viable programs that are slightly more complex than hello world.

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 26 minutes ago

20nyears? Quite positiv look

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 13 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

And yet, if you walk into any discussion about LLM use in coding, devs come out in droves to defend and even champion its use...

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I think most engineers don't really like it because it's making things harder and way less fun. The people who usually seem all about it are engineering managers and c suite idiots. They are all pushing it so hard. The message is clear, use the ai or be fired. It's been sold to them and they bought it with everything they have. It's not going to happen the way they think though.

AI tools are nice when I use them the way I want to. I like to do the stuff I am good at and have it help me with what I'm not so good at. At work they want us to just use it for everything though until it can just replace us. That's bullshit and it ruined any benefits we would have gained

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Yes, the age of all programming is over, because no new libraries or languages will ever be invented and LLMs will this always know everything there is to know about coding based on what's already been written which will never go obsolete.

Honestly, mocking these things is SO EASY.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

What makes you think AI won't be writing libraries or languages in the future?

[–] rodneylives@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Assuming that's true, and that's a BIG assumption.... What makes you think that would matter? AI has no interiority; it isn't a thinking blob, it's a text generator. Think of it as a fancy Markov chain.

Even if it were true, where in the chain do new principles, new techniques, new concepts enter into it? All these forms of generative AI can do is regurgitate what's been fed into it. The worst thing you can train an AI from is AI-generated output.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Ever heard of skills? You can essentially "teach" it new things that are not directly available in its model, right now it's still pretty early but it (to me) feels like quite a leap compared to model-only usage.

Its by no means perfect, but I do not think we're even close to scratching the surface of what all can be done with the tech.

I would bet people back at the advent of computers would scoff at many of the things computers can do now as fantasy.

Edit: Right now, context size is a limiting factor, but you can do things like assign sub-agents to specific tasks/skills and have the overall agent call the subagent to complete the task thereby reducing the context size needed for the skill on the original agent call, it sorta acts as a mediator. Of course you still need to ensure you're documenting what does/doesn't work and have that available for future tasks in the same vein so it doesn't repeat mistakes.

On your point about the underlying model used to train it, I imagine at some point there will be a breakthrough where it becomes more dynamic, I think skills are kind of a stepping stone to that. Maybe instead of models being gigantic, data is broken down into individual skills that are called to inform specific actions, and those skills can easily be dynamic already.

[–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 45 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

So, we're just trafficking in misinformation now?

Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort

True

, Says Their Time Is Over

Complete fiction. Clickbait misinformation.

The tweet:

I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.

Thank you for getting us to this point.

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I agree, the "Says Their Time Is Over" part is clickbaity, but the sentiment is the same. He's thanking "manual programmers" for taking us to this point, clearly implying that from now on they will be no longer required

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 1 points 49 minutes ago

And he's out of his mind or lying just the same. AI needs constant supervision, and if a human has to understand the code well enough to debug it, they may as well learn about it the code by -- writing it themselves....

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago

He didn't say them at the same time. He is absolutely all about firing them. It's his favorite pastime.

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 20 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

If you swap "says" with "hints", it works though.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 14 points 3 hours ago

The arrogance is astounding

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 1 points 1 hour ago

So we have to make a new programming language that uses keywords that are slurs and curses so not allowed to be used by LLM. PI+. Politically Incorrect programming language.

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago

Executives, your time is over.

[–] Doomsider@lemmy.world 41 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

These idiots want to replace technical workers when AI is more attuned to replacing a CEO at this point. We don't need Sam anymore.

[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago

Right. There are consequences when engineers make mistakes.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

For all the focus on Scam Altman, we should probably be focusing on the companies that are so quick to abandon their workers on the promise of saving a few bucks.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

And do what? This is only happening now because we're in a fascist economic system. Companies are overwhelmingly monopolies, and when they fail they get bailed out.

[–] Monument@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 hour ago

Not buy their products. Drag them on social media. Give interest to news stories about the product’s users, not the figurehead of one of the vendors, so the news media focuses on them rather than the distraction. Reach out to your politicians and your friends to discuss how product failures are the result of the company embracing AI and don’t forget to highlight the greed that brought us to this fascist economic system. Use, donate to, or even offer your skills to non-LLM FOSS alternatives. Spend your dollars on companies with scruples. Build your own home lab, give up on all technology, get really into self-sufficiency, and go live in the woods to escape the whole system.

I don’t know… something other than giving in. Literally anything other than that.

[–] jefferyjefferson@lemmy.org 1 points 1 hour ago

The only way to fix capitalist culture is to abandon it for something better.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 21 points 5 hours ago

“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”

People have to understand that this is what's behind all the giddiness and wild investing in AI - they are out of their minds at the prospect firing 90% of their human workforce, more if they possibly can. Nobody wants those disgusting humans hanging around, lazy, slow, eating, farting, gossipping, complaining, losers, no self-respecting Sociopathic Oligarch wants them around.

If they're so enthusiastic to go to work every day, send them to the work camps, where they can be leased out to corporations as Federal 13th Amendment Work Slaves. They'll be called 13s. In 10 years, if MAGA is still running the show, 13s will be the primary human workforce, for any jobs that can't be done by AI or robotic. There will be a small contingent of privileged humans who will work supervisory positions, bossing around the 13s.

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

i'm pretty sure that a.i. agents won't be filling out 1040 tax forms

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 8 points 4 hours ago

That's fine, no need for billionaires either and those were mostly useless.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 29 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Didn’t he swindle an open source project that was managed by a non profit into a company that only benefits himself? I love how all the rich and powerful are just swindlers. It appears they have no bootstraps.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 11 points 5 hours ago

Behind every great fortune, there is a great crime.

[–] e461h@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 hours ago

Just more hype from a guy who can’t make a profit https://www.wheresyoured.at/oai_docs/

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