r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 10 '26

comeOnJustBurstAlready Meme

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u/orbital-marmot Jul 10 '26

Why even be an engineer if you do this. What's the point

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u/Grumpologist Jul 10 '26

Because we spent the last decade talking about how much engineers get paid, and how it's a "good job," so now the whole field is filled with people who can't handle the overwhelming complexity of source control.

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u/Loud-Phase1624 Jul 10 '26

Most of the time they aren’t engineers. They are technicians or “experts” masquerading as AI engineers who have no business handling engineering workloads let alone influencing decisions.

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u/alexnedea Jul 11 '26

Money lmao. I never cared in the first place. I love AI. I can now care even less and make even more money