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.

  • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    57·
    11 hours ago

    I wish more people brought this up instead of just flinging shit at users/companies using AI.

    They’re fighting an unwinable battle, AI is here to stay and it will keep improving, we have to adapt and ensure people are able to have their basic needs met.

    But that’s scary socialism or w/e.

    • MartianRecon@lemmus.orgEnglish
      123·
      8 hours ago

      AI is absolutely not here to stay. This kind of nonsense needs to be nipped in the bud. The capital investment for ai simply can’t be recouped without major fantastical leaps in business.

      The revenue coming in is a shell game. The investment numbers simply can’t be recouped without being more expensive than actual people.

      So yeah. It absolutely can go away.

      • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        38·
        7 hours ago

        Lmfao and computers are just for nerds

        Edit: OpenAI, Anthropic, etc can all die, but LLMs are not. You can run a local model.

        Now I completely agree with the hype train is completely out of control and its a monetary bubble, but the tool itself is not going away.

        Edit2: I think the dotcom bubble is a good analogy, the underlying idea of the internet and all it can do and online ordering and such was solid, just an insane amount of hype on top that simply couldn’t be reached at that time. But now, the biggest companies ever are mainly internet/tech companies.

        • MartianRecon@lemmus.orgEnglish
          52·
          7 hours ago

          Computers are input-output devices. You put things into a computer and it does what you tell it to do.

          LMM’s do not do this they just give you a facsimile of what it believes you want.

          LMM’s will not go away but their functionality is extremely limited, as has been proven by it’s failure to ‘change business forever.’

          And no, ‘but the tech isn’t there’ isn’t an argument right now. This is economics. The investment for it’s current capabilities are far outsized, and there will be a massive contraction.

          • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            24·
            6 hours ago

            We are so far beyond “computer is just input output device” realistically. There’s thousands of layers of things built on top that produce what we know as a computer and anywhere along that chain things can be broken/not perform as expected because any other layer on the chain failed to do what it was supposed to.

            Realistically, what’s the difference between a thing and the facsimile of a thing when the result is the same?

            • MartianRecon@lemmus.orgEnglish
              1·
              1 hour ago

              Semantics.

              A person creates something. LMM models just blurt out an approximation of what they think might be what you want.