OpenAI CEO Sam Altman sends a ‘thanks note’ to software engineers with the message that ‘we plan to take your job’

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has shared a message on social media thanking software engineers who built complex systems before the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), while also highlighting how AI is changing the way coding is done. “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,” Sam Altman wrote in an X post, further adding “Thank you for getting us to this point”.

The post has sparked discussion about the future of software engineers.