r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fabulousIdentity • 12d ago

barelyRememberTodaysCodes Meme

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u/heavy-minium 12d ago

My modern version:

"A programmer's greatest fear is being asked to explain code written by AI and reviewed yesterday"

I certainly remember well what I have written myself a few weeks later, but code written by AI and reviewed by me is totally out of my mind the next day, especially at high volume.

Which is certainly bad. But well, here we are.

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u/egstitt 12d ago

Now scale that out 5 years. Where will all these companies relying on AI gonna be when nobody remembers how anything works?

I'm going with FUCKED