Futureism- Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over

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22. Codex is beyond that. It has special tools built into it to automate coding that go beyond just being trained...

...on code that others have written. Unfortunately, as a career coder myself, I see how powerful it is. But it also needs guidance. You still need people who can read code and review what its doing before you push that out to production. It makes mistakes and in the wrong hands, people have already done really stupid stuff with it.

The other silver lining here, for people like me, that don't want to be replaced with AI entirely... the cost is gonna level out. Right now, the big AI companies that specialize in code (like OpenAI and their Codex product), they are selling time tokens. But they are losing money on it because they are charging customers less than what it costs them. They are being propped up by venture capital. Eventually that becomes unsustainable and they'll have to raise prices, which will limit access.... which means coders shouldn't allow themselves to forget how to code just yet.