Remember when programmers were telling truck drivers to "learn to code bro" when they thought self-driving trucks were going to be a thing?
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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Learn to lay bricks, codebros!
It must be exhausting having to constantly lie all the time.
It isn't when you are a sociopath
It's only exhausting if you have to remember the lies. The media will never challenged him on them, though.
Honestly I think he believes his own bullshit
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There’s a remote job listing on LinkedIn right now for $125/hr to train an AI how to do schematic capture and layout. Like it’s right in the listing that you’re training an AI to do your job. Insanity.
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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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They should call it what it is, Offshoring and I remember what happened the last time they did that the quality was so bad most companies eventually and quietly brought the jobs back. AI will be the same thing once they can't help but admit Scam Altman took them for a ride at everyone's expense.
Scam Altman
I like that :-)
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Unless I’m mistaken, it took programmers to code AI in the first place.
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The tweet.
He's still using a Studio Ghibli pfp? I thought they asked OpenAI to stop using their style. These people are actively hostile to the idea of consent.
Rapist mentality all the way. How fitting they're all either owners of or owned by to the rapist in the White House.
Yes. That's why "Epstein class" is such a fair description.
Duly noted. Will adopt.
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He's at the Elon stage of feeling he needs to be more explicit about what an asshole he is. These guys seem to need recognition.
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I wonder if he wrote that post character-by-character.
But actually typing out the code is the least difficult part of programming, once you've been doing it for five or ten years. You have to understand the code that is already there. You have to decide the behavior, either way. You have to review the code, either way. Design the local and overall architecture. Design interfaces and APIs.
The fact that he thinks typing out new code took so much effort basically means that he was never a decent programmer. His statement betrays that he doesn't even understand what's difficult. People with his level of understanding of a topic shouldn't broadcast their ignorance publicly.
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Sam Altman can lick my ass until he runs out of investors money to lose...
Hey Sam, just so you know, if I do get laid off, I am going to charge at LEAST double when some of these assholes need to hire me back to fix the AI generated disaster they're struggling to keep running while bleeding money. So thank you in advance, I guess.
Double??? Fuck that. Charge 10x as much. These rich assholes pay pennies while hoarding billions. Don't feel bad for them when you need to clean up THEIR mess. I usually want everyone to feel empathy, but in this case, I'll make an exception. Have no empathy for billionaires. Their GOAL is to make you suffer. Milk their bank account dry.
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Workers thank capitalists for their "effort", say their time is over
/rant
These are weird times. I feel like any developer who's tried letting AI write code should recognize that it hurts productivity when you have chase down bugs in badly written code nobody on your team understands. For anything important, that will need to be maintained, less time would be spent designing, writing, and maintaining the code yourself. There are even studies showing AI hurts productivity. Yet, many developers seem to have bought the hype, and managers and investors doubly so.
AFAIK, few of these startups that tout heavy AI usage ever ship anything. The large companies that are forcing AI usage are progressively degrading their products.
Seems like the owner class is just going to keep on deluding themselves, companies are going to keep laying off, everybody is going to keep shipping shit that doesn't work, if they ship anything at all, and investors are going to keep dumping money into businesses producing no value. The entire system has never felt so fake. At least during the dot-com bubble corporations weren't doing mass layoffs to excite investors.
I feel like the owner class has got so powerful now, society has regressed to the point where we're back to being ruled by dumb, delusional, psychopathic royalty imposing their will onto the masses. (Yeah, it's kind of been that way for a long time, but it seems to be quickly getting worse).
I told Gemini to generate config files for an open source project with awful documentation. After a bunch of back and forth and nothing working right I had to supply the link to the current official docs and asked it to try again
It acknowledged it was using info from an older version of the program. And even still fucked it up
I really don't know what people are getting from these LLMs
As a developer on a team of 20ish that use AI heavily, daily, I'd argue there are proper ways of using it as a tool that substantially increases productivity and quality while also reducing bugs and improving maintainability.
But I would also say that 75%+ of people I encounter aren't leveraging it properly or even close to properly. Also too many people use ChatGPT and Copilot which are just bottom of the barrel garbage and then wonder why the output is also garbage.
But I agree that too many people and companies lean into AI too heavily and incorrectly and there will be a reckoning. I'm all for it.
everyone using ai says some variation of this
acting like they do proper code review on this ai gen code but we’ve had so many examples of how people well before ai carried massive tech debt and cut corners so I have zero faith
much less the numerous examples of slop laden bugs making it to live with major companies in the us
ai just amplifies and obfuscates the problem
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Nah, Sam. I think it's your time that's soon over...
Maybe it's time to cut ties.
Let the CEO do his business with AI only. Let the developers do their own business without a CEO and without AI.
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Wow he really has lost his mind.
Remember kids. If no one has any income because their jobs were replaced. Who is going to buy the slop?
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