Sam Altman argued it was "already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took" for coders to write software.

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.

  • b0ber@lemmy.worldEnglish
    101·
    5 days ago

    Their models can’t replace anyone, its just a fancy autocomplete. Before, we took snippets from GitHub and StackOverflow now it’s just a chat. Cool feature, but they overpromised big time.

    • sunbeam60@feddit.ukEnglish
      55·
      5 days ago

      It’s really not and if you believe it is you need to use it more. The threat is real - don’t underestimate it.

      • b0ber@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        5 days ago

        I’d feel more threatened if they had a model with persistent memory and realtime adaptability. But even then its not clear if it’ll replace engineers. We’re still far from that. Until then other tech might emerge like lab grown brains, quantum chips and what not

        • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          Right! GraphRAG, VectorDBs, larger context windows, MCP servers, “tools”, “skills”, and now “using the cli as a user” still havent really solved some of the inherent flaws of even the latest frontier models. SLMs and fining tuning gives me hope on addressing the learning part of machine learning. At least a little more