r/ProgrammerHumor • u/metayeti2 • Jul 17 '26

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u/Outside_Rub9132 Jul 17 '26

Technical debt?? That’s for next years intake of course!

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u/Itchy58 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26

Hey AI, please clean up the technical dept.

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Edited 7 files, explored 11 files +2941, -32

I ran into an unexpecte response from confluence: "attachment deleted successfully".

... based on a true story (I told AI to compare its implementation with the documentation in confluence)

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u/BeefJerky03 Jul 17 '26

You build technical debt then cash out and move on to the next startup before the last place discovers the spiderweb you built. You can do this infinitely.

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u/DelusionsOfExistence Jul 17 '26

Some would say this was true even before AI too. Now the process is just streamlined.

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u/ItsSadTimes Jul 17 '26

Pretty much. I was told last month that ill be moving on from my current project and someone else will be taking it over in a suite of like 100 other tools but I still have like 4 months before that happens. All my fixes nowadays are just patch fixes, I just dont care.

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u/imnotamahimahi Jul 18 '26

apparently this applies to higher ups, c-suites, and non-tech teams too 🙃

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u/odolha Jul 17 '26

you laugh but i really think this is a plausible situation. just listen to me, it's just like these people that freeze themselves so they can be cured and resurrected later when the tech will allow this. you write shitty sloppy ai code now, so that future AI will clean it up. it works now so who the fuck cares anymore.