Snake oil salesman is saying that snake oil will replace the doctors.
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"Your shits all fucked up..." Is where we're headed
/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).
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.
cool but that's not what he said
I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extremely complex software character-by-character. It already feels difficult to remember how much effort it really took.
Thank you for getting us to this point.
what is the point of this post?
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.
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.
ChatGPT, write me a missive of a 16th century printing press operator saying goodbye to scribes, only their printing press swaps around words and hallucinates entire sentences every time they use it.
Honestly, i think their rationale is that they paid these developers 500k$/yr or whatever... so in their minds, they set these devs up for lifetime success... therefore they have no obligation to keep them employed for long term
I think the devs who are smart, understood the unspoken terms of their agreement
paid these developers 500k$/yr or whatever
The smartest guy I know - dizzyingly capable - was only pulling a very small fraction of that. I suspect 'or whatever' is doing a lof of heavy lifting, here.
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.
Lol. The system is set up so that (few) workers will have the leverage to charge double....
Whoops... medical issue.... please, sam altman, hire me back at the same salary as before! Or half, i dont care!
Ok? He can go down that hole, but the programmers will congregate. I'd like to see him then.
I am making bank fixing shitty vibecoded software. So yes, please more of it. One more year like this and I can buy a house without debt lmao.
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 :-)
It must be exhausting having to constantly lie all the time.
It's only exhausting if you have to remember the lies. The media will never challenged him on them, though.
Fuck 'Madoff' Altman.
Imagine if you pirated a bunch of movies, and then went to the cinema and bragged about it. That's what Altman is doing there.
seems like smth i would do
Let the AI ouroboros eat its own tail, just have AI vibe code your AI, what's the worst that could happen
Answer from tech bros: is going to be an exponential loop of AI self improvement right into Super Intelligence
Reality: model collapse, bad performance, weird bugs, if it runs at all
If you've seen how badly specified, documented and behaved OpenAI's APIs are, you'd guess this was already the case.
Gotta say Sam, spoken like a true sister molester
Bad news is: 840 billion.
The biggest pile of bullshit bucks that the world has ever seen, and this guy's sorry ass is sitting on top.
What is the point of this article? It adds no value whatsoever.
If you scoured the world for the most punchable face, you’d surely come up with Sam Altman
Say anything that pops into your mind to keep the hype train going, huh Sam?
It's projection because he knows AI will replace CEOs.
This companies going down the toilet.