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applfanboysbgon | on: Astral to Join OpenAI
Company that repeatedly tells you software developers are obsoleted by their product buys more software developers instead of using said product to create software. Hmm.
lm28469 | parent | next
They said it'll be good enough in two weeks, give them some time!
XCSme | root | parent
Which year was that?
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siva7 | parent | next
They're not buying developers, they are buying the whole ecosystem to produce software. Still aligned with their original message.
applfanboysbgon | root | parent
If the product did what it was advertised to do, they could simply build their own ecosystem for producing software and train the model to use it.
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tedsanders | parent | next
I work at OpenAI. Software developers are not obsoleted by Codex or Claude Code, nor will they be soon.

For our teams, Codex is a massive productivity booster that actually increases the value of each dev. If you check our hiring page, you’ll see we are still hiring aggressively. Our ambitions are bigger than our current workforce, and we continue to pay top dollar for talented devs who want to join us in transforming how silicon chips provide value to humans.

Akin to how compilers reduced the demand for assembly but increased the demand for software engineering, I see Codex reducing the demand for hand-typed code but increasing the demand for software engineering. Codex can read and write code faster than you or me, but it still lacks a lot of intelligence and wisdom and context to do whole jobs autonomously.

applfanboysbgon | root | parent
This seems like a reasonable take. Maybe you could inform your CEO, the media and influencer sycophants, the tech companies that are laying off tens of thousands of developers while mandating the use of your company's tool, and everyone else responsible for us being inundated with outlandish claims that software engineering is dead on a literally daily basis. Hey, while I'm asking for wishes that won't be granted, maybe get people in your company to stop thinking they're so important that it's okay to buy 40% of the world's RAM supply with borrowed money, making it cost 4.5x as much for the rest of us?
largbae | parent | next
They're writing the software to end all softwares!
tripledry | parent | next
When someone at work talks about all software devs being replaced I link them to the Anthropic career pages.
AlexCoventry | parent | next
They probably have retention issues, due to selling out to fascism recently.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/03/openai-sam-altman-pentagon-d...

I know I stopped using them.

dewey | root | parent | next
And buying a niche developer tool is helping with that?
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sidsud | root | parent | next
which AI company hasn't?
MrBuddyCasino | root | parent
"Fascism" is when military. The more military, the more fascist. According to this metric, the USSR / DDR with its "anti-fascist wall" was super extra fascist because they were armed to the teeth.
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avaer | parent | next
As good as the team is, that's not what they're buying in this case.
suddenlybananas | root | parent
What are they buying?
rvnx | root | parent | next
> Second, to our investors, especially Casey Aylward from Accel, who led our Seed and Series A, and Jennifer Li from Andreessen Horowitz, who led our Series B

They are buying out investors, it's like musical chairs.

The liquidity is going to be better on OpenAI, so it pleases everyone (less pressure from investors, more liquidity for investors).

The acquisition is just a collateral effect.

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KeplerBoy | root | parent | next
mindshare and a central piece of the python package management ecosystem.
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huqedato | root | parent | next
IMO, they are buying business just to put them down later to avoid potential competition. The recipe is not new, it has been practiced by Google/Microsoft for many years.
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waynesonfire | parent
And, they buy a company writing tooling for Python in not Python.
LollipopYakuza | root | parent
A tool might not be the best tool to build itself, doesn't mean it is not good. You don't use a screwdriver to craft screwdrivers. Doesn't mean screwdrivers are inherently bad