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Replaced his dev team with AI (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] BatrickPateman@lemmy.world 204 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That was the guy that later asked (on X?) for people to send in CVs and recent works, right? Must have been going really well for him πŸ˜„

Edit:

Yep, that is him:

https://content.techgig.com/technology/developer-fires-entire-team-for-ai-now-ends-up-searching-for-engineers-on-linkedin/articleshow/116659064.cms

The tweet read, β€œI fired my entire dev team. Replaced them with O1, Lovable, and Cursor. Now I ship 100X faster with code that’s 10X cleaner. Open AI o3 is coming, and 90% of dev jobs won’t survive.”

But, would you believe it, Winder later took to LinkedIn to announce that he needed web developers to join his company. This disparity invited a lot of derision, the Reddit post even having nearly 10K upvotes and comments. Another raged: So he is saying his company is an unneeded greed mongrel milking a simple interaction between his clients and OpenAI! Another said, β€œI just say AI to do it all.” But can’t someone else just tell AI to do everything? You don’t understand. I meet with the clients! I’m a people person, dammit!”

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 167 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I've replaced my workforce with AI. I've replaced my clients with AI. I've replaced my office with AI. I've replaced myself with AI. Even this post is procedurally generated.

I am no more. I am gone. Only AI now. AI is coming. Bleep bloop Mr. Anderson.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago

^ actual true goal of hyper capitalism

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Reminds me of Stanislaw Lem's book Peace On Earth, where all the super powers fight a proxy war on the moon with robots to have "peace on earth". Maybe we can have a proxy AI economy on the moon and have peace from capitalism. Although, it didn't really turn out to be a good idea in the book.

[–] FlawedSyntax@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That sounds like an interesting read! Is it part of a series or could it be read independently? I tried to find out online but I got seemingly conflicting results.

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago

I think the hero is a recurring character in unrelated books. His stuff is pretty wild.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 19 points 2 days ago

Update: I'm being sued for plagurism and the AI has stopped coding and is now just listing recipes for various desserts.

[–] Pechente@feddit.org 92 points 3 days ago (3 children)

His X bio is also amazing:

I turn your app ideas into SaaS MVPs fast using AI & 12+ years of dev experience, helping you make passive income. DM me to get started and launch your MVP!

Heβ€˜s fishing for that zero passion passive income bubble that thinks it can become rich by doing nothing except giving random gurus money.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

It’s crazy how easily people fall for this shit

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

Even if he was right an AI could do the whole thing why would somebody pay him to just give the AI a prompt. Why wouldn't they just do it themselves?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago

Hmm, maybe he isn’t so bad if he’s just grifting grifters lol

[–] Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 52 points 3 days ago

If you take him at face value, he's a:

  1. developer -- no way a PM can deal with AI code directly

  2. senior/mid level -- since he was a team lead at some point

  3. reviews and revises AI code all day

Leave him alone, the man is already in a hell of his own creation

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is this the same guy who was hiring for web devs just a few weeks ago?

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yes. He also made a fake account to lick his virtual boots: https://sh.itjust.works/post/30288639/15814209

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

This guy sounds like a Muskrat-stan.

[–] Jaymang@sh.itjust.works 42 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The best part is that there's no chance that code is "cleaner". Just another tech bro who thinks he's figured out the matrix.

[–] szczuroarturo@programming.dev 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Yeach clean code is very subjective thing.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago

It learned to code from stack overflow, it's not going to be clean.

[–] gencha@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

Says more about his hiring skills than about "AI". He needs to make up better bait

[–] Phate18@lemmy.world 45 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The Butlerian Jihad will be a mercy when it comes.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 26 points 3 days ago

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind

[–] Jinni@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 days ago

And then all the users clapped.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 9 points 2 days ago

Plot twist: He’s a bot account.

[–] Maddier1993@programming.dev 32 points 3 days ago

I played an RPG video game the other day with tricky AI companions and foes. This guy sounds like an NPC to be honest.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 28 points 3 days ago

LOL sure buddy, sure...

[–] JoeKrogan@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

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