Sam Altman’s thanks to programmers attracts memes

If you need a cathartic release from the news that Amazon lays off 16,000 workers, Chopped block Nearly half of its workforce, Atlantic decline by 10% From the staff, Meta is said to be considering another option A massive round of layoffsall in the name of artificial intelligence, then we invite you to browse the responses to Sam Altman’s recent post on X.

Altman, CEO of OpenAI, shared this on Tuesday:

“I’m so grateful to the people who wrote a very complex program, letter by letter. It’s already hard to remember how much effort it actually took. Thank you for getting us to this point.” Altman shared on Tuesday.

The problem with this nice sentiment is that Altman introduced artificial intelligence that is now used as an excuse to lay off developers and Fewer junior developer jobs. He did this by training on massive amounts of code written the old-fashioned way — by the same people he now thanks.

His post suggests that the difficult-to-master craft of developers is now like a rotary telephone: outdated and unnecessary.

Naturally, Altman’s comments attracted even richer memes and responses than his post. While some were straight angry(“You’re welcome. It’s nice to know our reward is getting our jobs taken”), much of the Internet does what it always does: corny jokes.

There are thousands of comments. Some of our favorites:

“Sam’s eulogy For software engineers”

“It’s times like these when I really… I miss Sam Altman’s satirical account.”

“Dear developers, you will lose your jobs forever She is forced to work in coal mines but you can take comfort in knowing that Sam Altman is grateful. ❤️ 🙏”

“Billion dollar app idea: The AI ​​that reads billionaires’ tweets before they’re posted and says “This will make you look incredibly out of touch with reality, are you sure?”

“I feel grateful to OpenAI To do all the AI ​​work so I can have free open source Chinese AI models to use 🙏”

“This reads like nothing The Maya will say it right before the ceremony begins.

Finally, there’s another reason to bring up this meme: