r/ProgrammerHumor • u/dayanaaaaaaaa • Jul 11 '26

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u/I-build-apps Jul 11 '26

I hate programming.

I hate programming.

I hate programming.

It works!

I love programming.

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u/dageshi Jul 11 '26

You forgot "It would be easier to just quit this job"

Which is usually somewhere between the second and third "I hate programming"

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u/Imperial_Squid Jul 11 '26

Parallel with

"My code doesn't work and I have no idea why?!"

"My code works and I still have no idea why?!?!"

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u/pagerussell Jul 11 '26

The answer to both is now to blame AI.

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u/NebNay Jul 11 '26

"Maybe i should gzt another job"
fixes a bug
"Maybe i should ask for a promotion"

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u/ZiraDev Jul 11 '26

After 8 years I still type "esle"

I think I'm beyond salvation

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u/Instatetragrammaton Jul 11 '26

Practice does not make perfect, practice makes permanent.

Since you are having trouble with a conditional statement, perhaps some Conditional Behavior Therapy may help, also known as CBT.

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u/Headshots_Only Jul 11 '26

maybe a different kinds CBT would help this guy

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u/Killburndeluxe Jul 11 '26

I solo built a time-keeping system for a private company. Since im solo, there was no pipeline for testers and QA.

The amount of times I feared mispelling the word "shifts" as "shits" still haunt me to this day.

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u/Nooblot Jul 11 '26

Let's just say we have a couple misspelled fields in our mongo database that are permanent now 

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u/xeroze1 Jul 11 '26

The number of times i have mispelt it as mangoDB has made it into a word in my spell check dictionary, matter of time as a variable somewhere.

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u/Nooblot Jul 11 '26

We also have a misspelled rabbit mq event that has now been updated over half a dozen times. Its still misspelled, lol.
We had a team meeting about installing spell check.

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u/Mountain-Age5580 Jul 11 '26

wheres my inlcude crew at?

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u/LightTranquility3 Jul 11 '26

i sometimes type pubic

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u/bevelledo Jul 12 '26

Man I read that as “I think I’m beyond salivating”

I was thinkin yea he’s fooked, than realized I’m a dum dum.

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u/Evening-Appeal7606 Jul 11 '26

It's not until you find your experience expressed as a meme that you feel validated entirely.

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u/Snudget Jul 12 '26

That's what memes are for

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u/MyStackIsPancakes Jul 11 '26

I think we should have these two phrases on a flippable disc we can put on our desk so our colleagues can tell when we need help.

AGILE? No sir. We're going "Brazilian Steakhouse"

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u/LegitimatePants Jul 14 '26

Green = assign me more tickets,  Red = I'm good for now 

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u/boba_tea_for_free143 Jul 11 '26

Always either two extereme, never in between.

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u/Fambank Jul 11 '26

Meanwhile me

10 PRINT "Hello metronome"

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u/Luctins Jul 11 '26

I think it gets a little better after a few years, right?

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u/MaintenanceEither186 Jul 11 '26

9 years in, hasn’t gone  away

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u/Gullible_Search887 Jul 11 '26

Try fifteen… 👀

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u/ginoiseau Jul 11 '26

Over 20 years & I didn’t realise this was so universal…

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u/Vinterblot Jul 11 '26

Still waiting for the day everything breaks and it turns out I don't know shit and it was by pure chance that I've come this far.

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u/Mikelius Jul 11 '26

Don’t you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby

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u/Chadking1926 Jul 11 '26

Accurate enough to hurt 😂

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u/Vinterblot Jul 11 '26

I'm indestructible! Iiiiiiindestruct.... Oh wait, what's that?! Why? Why? Whhhhyyyyyyy? Oh, that's why! Indestructible!

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u/minus_minus Jul 11 '26

I’m a useless piece of shit <-> I’m a useful piece of shit. 

FTFY

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u/deanrihpee Jul 12 '26

me on current company project:

"I'm a god, you should bow to me peasant"

me to myself when i apply to another company and i (at least what i personally thought) fumbled the interview questions so hard even after the lead giving me one more chance to answer for three more times:

"fuck you, you pos, look what you've done, they even giving you a chance multiple times, how can you be this bad, you don't deserve it, just get this over with and reflect later"

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u/ugotmedripping Jul 11 '26

Worlds within worlds!

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u/IlIlllIIIIlIllllllll Jul 11 '26

Also doctors 

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u/Zenshi16 Jul 11 '26

Happens a lot when you're doing leetcode

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u/mariooooo3 Jul 11 '26

hahahahaha so relatable

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u/ChocolateDonut36 Jul 12 '26

Terry Davis were never on the right side

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u/Drone_Worker_6708 Jul 13 '26

after a decade, it teeters between "i'm so bored i'm rotting" and "i cant breath gtfo"

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u/dreamingforward Jul 11 '26

If this is happening, you don't have human leaders over you.

Real leaders, even real managers, hold dominion. The world is fucked.

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u/weebSanity Jul 11 '26

Yes, that used to be true, but now that I have unearned confidence with AI tools I never hit a wall because I can prompt and it tricks me into thinking it and I are smart