These idiots want to replace technical workers when AI is more attuned to replacing a CEO at this point. We don't need Sam anymore.
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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Right. There are consequences when engineers make mistakes.
And yet, if you walk into any discussion about LLM use in coding, devs come out in droves to defend and even champion its use...
These companies have more money in their hands than they can carry, is it too crazy to think they may be somehow buying on public perception? I'm not trying to make a point on this, I don't have the time, just saying, this kind of thing happens all the time; investing on public opinion is quite cheap for them.
I think most engineers don't really like it because it's making things harder and way less fun. The people who usually seem all about it are engineering managers and c suite idiots. They are all pushing it so hard. The message is clear, use the ai or be fired. It's been sold to them and they bought it with everything they have. It's not going to happen the way they think though.
AI tools are nice when I use them the way I want to. I like to do the stuff I am good at and have it help me with what I'm not so good at. At work they want us to just use it for everything though until it can just replace us. That's bullshit and it ruined any benefits we would have gained
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The arrogance is astounding
Executives, your time is over.
“You’re welcome,” one user responded. “Nice to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away.”
People have to understand that this is what's behind all the giddiness and wild investing in AI - they are out of their minds at the prospect firing 90% of their human workforce, more if they possibly can. Nobody wants those disgusting humans hanging around, lazy, slow, eating, farting, gossipping, complaining, losers, no self-respecting Sociopathic Oligarch wants them around.
If they're so enthusiastic to go to work every day, send them to the work camps, where they can be leased out to corporations as Federal 13th Amendment Work Slaves. They'll be called 13s. In 10 years, if MAGA is still running the show, 13s will be the primary human workforce, for any jobs that can't be done by AI or robotic. There will be a small contingent of privileged humans who will work supervisory positions, bossing around the 13s.
Didn’t he swindle an open source project that was managed by a non profit into a company that only benefits himself? I love how all the rich and powerful are just swindlers. It appears they have no bootstraps.
Behind every great fortune, there is a great crime.
the funny thing is that by all accounts replacing programmers with AI leads to hiring programmers back to fix AI mess.
But do they want to come back ?
For double the salary probably, the problem is there's always a line of people looking for work.
That's why unions are important and for people to not be scabs
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For all the focus on Scam Altman, we should probably be focusing on the companies that are so quick to abandon their workers on the promise of saving a few bucks.
And do what? This is only happening now because we're in a fascist economic system. Companies are overwhelmingly monopolies, and when they fail they get bailed out.
Not buy their products. Drag them on social media. Give interest to news stories about the product’s users, not the figurehead of one of the vendors, so the news media focuses on them rather than the distraction. Reach out to your politicians and your friends to discuss how product failures are the result of the company embracing AI and don’t forget to highlight the greed that brought us to this fascist economic system. Use, donate to, or even offer your skills to non-LLM FOSS alternatives. Spend your dollars on companies with scruples. Build your own home lab, give up on all technology, get really into self-sufficiency, and go live in the woods to escape the whole system.
I don’t know… something other than giving in. Literally anything other than that.
The only way to fix capitalist culture is to abandon it for something better.
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This feels a lot like a ragebait article.
What did Altman actually tweet that caused the backlash? I can't seem to find it while skimming, only the responses to it.
-edit- Found it
It is a lot less rage inducing than the article makes it out to be.
I mean I can see how that draws ire. His contribution doesn’t really line up with his benefits. This project started as an open source, with a non profit running it. Now it’s one of the biggest private companies in the world and threatening to replace a lot of jobs. So if you look at the context, he’s already forgetting how much hard work he stole to make himself obscenely rich and powerful!
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Yes, total ragebait. Thanks for linking to the actual source xit.
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Gui. Llo. Ti. Ne.
That's fine, no need for billionaires either and those were mostly useless.
Snake oil salesman is saying that snake oil will replace the doctors.
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Yes, the age of all programming is over, because no new libraries or languages will ever be invented and LLMs will this always know everything there is to know about coding based on what's already been written which will never go obsolete.
Honestly, mocking these things is SO EASY.
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Unless I’m mistaken, it took programmers to code AI in the first place.
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Remember when programmers were telling truck drivers to "learn to code bro" when they thought self-driving trucks were going to be a thing?
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Nah, Sam. I think it's your time that's soon over...
Incestuous sex pest Sam Altman?
wait what
His sister is suing him and says he sexually assaulted her for the better part of a decade.