Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

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Sam Altman posted a thank-you message to developers who wrote complex software by hand, calling it a difficult craft that now feels like a distant memory. The post backfired publicly, drawing widespread mockery and anger given that OpenAI's AI tools are being cited as justification for mass layoffs at Amazon, Block, Atlassian, and Meta. Thousands of sarcastic memes and responses flooded in, with developers pointing out the irony of being thanked while simultaneously losing their jobs to the technology Altman's company built on their work.

Sam Altman's thank-you to coders draws the memes

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