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.

  • the_radness@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    4 hours ago

    My team of engineers and I were laid off on January 2, after spending a year replatforming a medical SaaS product. We were told the company was heading in another direction in order to to go to market faster.

    That direction is the Product Designer and Claude Code, rebuilding everything from scratch.

    • acchariya@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      Amazing. I’m trying to fuck off at work by just dumping slop but I can’t get llms to solve any real problems so I keep ending up having to do it myself. This is with very clear guidelines and instruction. If there’s no already existing PR to point it to to essentially copy it fails