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.

  • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I just want to highlight this,

    “The fact that he thinks typing out new code took so much effort basically means that he was never a decent programmer.”

    Grear point! This is a critical insight.

    Like during the dotcom boom, new tools mean new people can program the computer who could not, before.

    And just like during tht dotcom boom, they’ll soon find out that programming a computer - while very slightly easier than it was last year - still has challenges.