Nothing says ‘you’re being replaced’ quite like a heartfelt thank you from the guy doing the replacing
this post was submitted on 18 Mar 2026
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The arrogance is astounding
Executives, your time is over.
So, we're just trafficking in misinformation now?
Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort
True
, Says Their Time Is Over
Complete fiction. Clickbait misinformation.
The tweet:
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.
If you swap "says" with "hints", it works though.
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 idiots want to replace technical workers when AI is more attuned to replacing a CEO at this point. We don't need Sam anymore.
Right. There are consequences when engineers make mistakes.
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.
“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.
That's fine, no need for billionaires either and those were mostly useless.
No suggestion of a plan b, like selling t-shirts for musicians?
Their plan A is replacing musicians too.
Those who are still at it?
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.
Sam Altman can lick my ass until he runs out of investors money to lose...
Let's see how well this one ages, shall we?
About as well as Devin taking all of our jobs (which I think was supposed to happen a while ago). How's that one doing?
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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!
I mean every obscenely rich and powerful person stole a lot of work from other people...otherwiese they wouldn't be obscenely rich. So, he's hasn't forgotten, he isn't and never was aware of how much he stole.
His tweet said he’s “already forgetting how much hard work was done”…. by humans! Implying that the AI is doing all the hard work now.
I didn’t see the “says their time is over” part anywhere that he allegedly said. Guy’s still a piece of shit, but not seeing anything out of line he said in this specific instance.
Yes, total ragebait. Thanks for linking to the actual source xit.
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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?
It's just a form of marketing to convince investors the technology will be able to replace jobs, I don't get why this is being upvoted.
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 ?
Good point, I'll be up front about only replacing vibe code, not debugging it.
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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Same thing for translation. They replaced us with AI and ask us to proofread and correct the mess for 1/4 the price. I stopped my translation career over this.
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This is all just PR to raise more capital for a failed business model.
Workers thank capitalists for their "effort", say their time is over
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