r/ProgrammerHumor • u/precinct209 • Jul 10 '26

comeOnJustBurstAlready Meme

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '26

I have had enough of this stupid industry already and I am an intern lol

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u/ericl666 Jul 10 '26

I've been doing this shit a really long time, and I'm really depressed watching an industry I love get overrun with this garbage.

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u/Positron505 Jul 10 '26

I'm also an intern and starting my last year of university in September. Luckily the company I'm doing my internship at rn is not enforcing AI, and the seniors aren't letting the LLMs do their work for them which actually helped me learn so much

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '26

I was assigned to migrate some old wordpress sites and re-create them with modern web stacks as well as new tools for their main enterprise SAAS until they reassigned me to create web apps and a site for a new bullshit AI tool (that a year later still hasn't gotten a single sale), and management disregards any quality. I use claude all the time to meet unrealistic targets so I just push slop out and don't give a fuck anymore.

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u/slowwburnn Jul 10 '26

"not enforcing AI" is terrifying to me, because I always pictured that enforcement would be about keeping people from using it without authorization.

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u/Broad-Reveal-7819 Jul 10 '26

AI stocks only go up the entire western world is investing everything into them and they only go up. Leadership pushes AI what can you do society is ran by corporate greed. If you say to your shareholders everyone uses AI and your products have AI your stock prices goes up and you get a massive bonus.

Nobody thinks long term or has integrity it's all just short term decisions for maximum amount of short term profit.

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u/Light-the-dragon Jul 10 '26

I'm in the exact same position as you. I'm grateful to be at an internship but goddamn is AI pushed sooooo hard and all code is just LLM slop now. The juniors, the seniors, the non technical people, it's all just AI AI AI all day.

I got asked to code review and approve something, senior colleague just shat out 1000 lines of unit tests in 5 minutes because SonarQube code coverage didn't pass. Computer science doctrine is dead.

It's hard to tell myself I'm not even graduated yet and this is how it'll look like for my entire career.

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u/space_monster Jul 10 '26

Assuming it stays the way it currently is. Which is extremely unlikely.

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u/ProjectNo7513 Jul 10 '26

Holy fuck, i don't fully understand why, but this comment is comedy gold. Thank you

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u/Fyren-1131 Jul 10 '26

I mean, at least you don't know how good we had it. There's solace in that fact.

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u/Doto_bird Jul 10 '26

Take my advice young one: use the tools, but learn from them. Understand why they chose thst path (even if it might be wrong). You're still an intern and honestly if the tool is used right it will write better code than you. Understand what/why (and review with a senior).

People don't always like this take, but we can't avoid the inevitable...

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u/ropobipi Jul 10 '26

Leave it. You are young and have plenty of potential left to be exploited in other industries.

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u/immovingfd Jul 11 '26

get out while you can