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.
Any software engineer who uses AI knows this to be horseshit. If anything, it’ll lead to more engineering jobs when all of the pleb CEOs who think they’re CTOs now begin to realize that there’s more to coding than the code, and their software is ass at scale. Hopefully this happens in hilarious and public ways for us all to enjoy.
Sam is still early, and obnoxious, but I’ve been monitoring AI progress since the 1980s. Roughly one year ago, AI coding agents sort of turned the corner from not really any more useful than a Google search (which is, itself very useful), into getting things right more than they hallucinate. That was an important watershed, because from that point they could make forward progress, fixing more mistakes than they made.
In the 12 months since, there has been steady and rapid forward progress. If you haven’t asked an AI to code something for you in the last 3 months, you’re out of touch with where it’s at today.
Even free Gemini rips out really good bash scripts faster than you can look up the first weird thing you want it to do.