Sam Altman’s thank-you to coders draws the memes
In the event you want a cathartic launch from the information that Amazon laid off 16,000 workers, Block chopped practically half its workforce, Atlassian pared back 10% of staffers, and Meta is reportedly contemplating one other massive round of layoffs, all within the title of AI, then we invite you to browse the responses to a latest Sam Altman publish on X.
Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, shared this on Tuesday:
“I’ve a lot gratitude to individuals who wrote extraordinarily complicated software program character-by-character. It already feels troublesome to recollect how a lot effort it actually took. Thanks for getting us so far.”
The issue with that candy sentiment is that Altman’s firm ushered within the AI now getting used as an excuse for developer layoffs and fewer junior developer jobs. And it did so by coaching on huge volumes of code written the old style means — by the very folks he’s now thanking.
His publish implies that builders’ genuinely difficult-to-master craft is now like a rotary phone: outdated and pointless.
Naturally, Altman’s feedback attracted memes and responses richer than his publish. Whereas some had been straight-up angry, (“You’re welcome. Good to know that our reward is our jobs being taken away”), a lot of the web did what it all the time does: cracked jokes.
There are millions of feedback. A few of our favorites:
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“Sam’s eulogy for software program engineers”
“It’s times like this when I really miss the Sam Altman parody account”
“Dear devs You will lose your jobs forever and be pressured to work within the coal mines However you possibly can relaxation simple understanding sam Altman is grateful. ❤️ 🙏”
“Billion dollar app idea: AI that reads billionaire tweets earlier than they publish them and says ‘that is going to make you sound extremely out of contact, are you certain?’”
“I have gratitude to OpenAI for doing all of the AI work so I can have free Chinese language open supply AI fashions to make use of 🙏”
“This reads like something the Mayans would say proper earlier than the ceremony begins.”
And eventually, another excuse to trot out this meme:
