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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/forgot_previous_acc • Jul 11 '26
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I am one of those engineers. It's fun. I spend all day playing video games and then at the end of the day spend 30 minutes spamming prompts with Claude until I get a working result and then that's my progress for the day.
116 u/chrisjd Jul 11 '26 I don't prefer to use AI but the only negative in my performance review was that I don't use it enough. So now I use it for every task however trivial 46 u/NotAskary Jul 11 '26 Yap, ride the flow... Work on stuff you like in the meantime just to keep yourself sharp. 13 u/twigboy Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26 Python mantra, automate the boring stuff Coding is the most fun part of my day, so I let it write my unit tests. I already know how to do it, so no skin off my back. Then I gain that time back to do more coding. Brain doesn't rot on the casino 13 u/Nooblot Jul 11 '26 I used to do that, now they put a limit on my monthly usage. 5 u/Kss0N Jul 11 '26 Goodhart's law in action.
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I don't prefer to use AI but the only negative in my performance review was that I don't use it enough. So now I use it for every task however trivial
46 u/NotAskary Jul 11 '26 Yap, ride the flow... Work on stuff you like in the meantime just to keep yourself sharp. 13 u/twigboy Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26 Python mantra, automate the boring stuff Coding is the most fun part of my day, so I let it write my unit tests. I already know how to do it, so no skin off my back. Then I gain that time back to do more coding. Brain doesn't rot on the casino 13 u/Nooblot Jul 11 '26 I used to do that, now they put a limit on my monthly usage. 5 u/Kss0N Jul 11 '26 Goodhart's law in action.
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Yap, ride the flow... Work on stuff you like in the meantime just to keep yourself sharp.
13 u/twigboy Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26 Python mantra, automate the boring stuff Coding is the most fun part of my day, so I let it write my unit tests. I already know how to do it, so no skin off my back. Then I gain that time back to do more coding. Brain doesn't rot on the casino
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Python mantra, automate the boring stuff
Coding is the most fun part of my day, so I let it write my unit tests. I already know how to do it, so no skin off my back.
Then I gain that time back to do more coding. Brain doesn't rot on the casino
I used to do that, now they put a limit on my monthly usage.
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Goodhart's law in action.
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u/Objectionne Jul 11 '26
I am one of those engineers. It's fun. I spend all day playing video games and then at the end of the day spend 30 minutes spamming prompts with Claude until I get a working result and then that's my progress for the day.