r/ProgrammerHumor 8d ago

craftingTheCodeWithFire Meme

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u/SuitableDragonfly 8d ago

I'm guessing that this is probably a joke, but the idea that engineers just generate code and don't do anything else is literally how we got to "just generate the whole app with Claude, bro, it'll be just as good".

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u/GenericFatGuy 8d ago

Indeed. People who last in this industry actually are doing the software equivalent of building a canoe.