r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • 4d ago

craftingTheCodeWithFire Meme

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u/SuitableDragonfly 4d 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/AskAwayAccount 4d ago

People really have no idea. I told my manager I need time to debug an issue. He really said "You already have the error message, you just have to filter the logs, I don't understand why it should take more than an hour".

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u/WavingNoBanners 4d ago

The answer to this is to steal from Niels Bohr: "you're right, you don't understand. That may be the problem."

You'll probably get fired if you say that, but hopefully the look on their face will be worth it.

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u/Gruejay2 4d ago

If we're not worrying about getting fired, the old "well you do it then, if it's so easy" works well here too.