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

cross-posted from: https://reddthat.com/post/62136174

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.

  • MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    21 hours ago

    That’s perfectly fine for people to interpret it that way, and if they’re right and Altman fires his programmers (I highly doubt this, because while he’s an idiot, he’s not stupid) they will be proven correct.

    My point is that for a journalist to make the interpretation and deliver is as fact, to me, crosses a line.

    It’s one thing to say, “Altman thanks programmers for their work amidst layoffs across the industry” and another thing entirely to say, “Altman says programmers time is over”. It weakens trust in journalism to make an interpretation as a journalist and deliver it to an audience as fact when it very well might not be true.