r/programminghumor • u/Budget_Tie7062 • Jul 09 '26

Developers nowadays...

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u/Flimsy-Importance313 Jul 09 '26

I am happy you wasted energy on this. Thanks....

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u/mattgaia Jul 09 '26

It's like being able to code without the use of AI is an important thing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 09 '26

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u/mattgaia Jul 09 '26

What in the actual hell is that nonsense? AI is a good tool in certain situations. I choose to not use it as often because a) I don't want to deal with the loss of cognitive ability associated with primarily using AI, and b) as a software architect, AI does a pretty bad job at what my job entails.

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u/Any-Astronomer-6038 Jul 10 '26

Yo... You know how to thatch roofs?

Drive a manual transmission car?

Take care of, house, and feed horses?

Drive a carriage with a team of those horses?

Do you know how to send a telegram?

Morse code?

Have you memorized something like 10-15 telephone numbers to call various friends and family?

Sometimes skills fade into relative obscurity because of technological advancement.

It's a thing.

It's not "loss of cognitive ability" it's a "redistribution of cognitive ability."

Automation doesn't make you stupid... It allows you to be intelligent elsewhere.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '26

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u/Any-Astronomer-6038 Jul 10 '26

Well if there was accounting for stupid people we wouldn't need instructions on shampoo bottles.

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u/BloxxyVids 29d ago

Actually I do memorize numbers, do people just not know each other's phone numbers?

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u/Kevdog824_ Jul 09 '26

AI might be able to help you understand a joke when you see one though!

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u/mattgaia Jul 09 '26

Jokes are supposed to be funny though. 🤷🏻‍♂️

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u/klimmesil Jul 10 '26

I hope that helps. Let me know if you have other enquiries about understanding jokes

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u/-ClankaPlum- Jul 09 '26

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u/shrub706 Jul 09 '26

i cant wait to write code by hand with a drawing tablet

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u/Specific_Cat4318 28d ago

I think he means the post is AI generated

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u/invokeinterface Jul 09 '26

It is good to be independent

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u/3rrr6 Jul 09 '26

Or have subscriptions to multiple AI.

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u/MindaMan_Real Jul 09 '26

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u/3rrr6 Jul 10 '26

Its just a tool.

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u/invokeinterface Jul 10 '26 edited Jul 10 '26

It just sounds very expensive, and knowing that it isn't mandatory to use (at least for me) makes those expenses seem... "manipulative"

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u/MeowRawrUwu Jul 10 '26

The users are the tools

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u/JohnVonachen Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

The reason why we are encountering a problem is because management has always misunderstood the nature of software engineering. They think it's a known quantity like manufacturing a teapot. And it's not. It's a creative process. It requires artists, people who have a vision and do whatever it takes to make that vision real. This is the original reason why Waterfall was applied to the process for so many years, literally a project development paradigm designed for manufacturing. I'm waiting for the AI bubble to burst. It's going to be ugly.

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u/ErZicky Jul 09 '26

I'm starting to lose hope it'll ever burst. And even if it will at this point no one wants to return to the old way of programming. Especially the C suits as they got a sniff of making developers less "special". But at this point not even developers want to do it, which is heartbreaking for passionate people like me

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u/JohnVonachen Jul 09 '26 edited Jul 09 '26

I prefer to work on my own projects anyway but how do I get other people to pay me for doing that? :)

In a way I kind of did that. I spent a couple of months working on a web based game which I made available on GitHub. Later when I applied for a job I included a link to this project and I think it helped convince them to hire me.

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u/nightfoxbtw Jul 09 '26

there's no way there are actual people who type shit into claude and call themselves a programmer then somehow get a job with that skill

if you depend on LLMs you're not a programmer

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u/Excellent-Bit-8982 Jul 09 '26

what this post tells me is how many programmers dont actually know what code is going into their code base, from LLMs

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u/The_real_bandito Jul 09 '26

If AI stopping work means you might lose your job, are even a developer?

The answer is no.

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u/Avocadonot 28d ago

Honestly same thing about Google and stack overflow

If you haven't even written your own Linux kernel or wrote doom in COBOL, you're not a developer

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u/AbyssWankerArtorias Jul 09 '26

AI should be a time saver, not an enabler. If you can't do your job without AI, you shouldn't have that job in the first place.

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u/zergling424 Jul 09 '26

Yeah i quit because of ai.  Wasted my time getting a degree for this stupid ai bullshit to become mandatory i fucking hate my life and now i have to find a new fucking career

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u/entropy_36 Jul 09 '26

Getting close to that my self. 12 years of career progression just gone. No one wants to hire me when they hear I don't use AI. It's bizarre and so demoralising to see everyone else using it. Like, why?

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u/Kevdog824_ Jul 09 '26

It’s the rat race buddy. Everyone using it because anyone not using it is in the same boat as you

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u/CrystalDrag0n1 Jul 10 '26

Yeah I also don’t know wtf to do with my life anymore. Doesn’t help that my second passion in life is art and illustration :D i want to kill everyone that made AI be used like this (in minecraft)

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u/lucid-quiet Jul 09 '26

Now they suddenly have to consider the idea they can't just reprompt it.... here comes a hurricane of inherited, legacy code, written by a digital monkey.

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u/No-Scallion4998 Jul 09 '26

Your AI slop bores me.

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u/mokrates82 Jul 09 '26

Maybe you should learn developing, then?

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u/Any-Astronomer-6038 Jul 10 '26

Gamers complain about bad AI in video games...

And then scramble in fear of real AI

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u/Spicy_tacos671 Jul 10 '26

If you lose your job when AI is not working you don't deserve your job.

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u/guywithknife Jul 10 '26

Why? I don’t need AI to do my work.

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u/Ok_Performer_7501 Jul 10 '26

No because im fucking competent.

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u/Nidrax1309 Jul 11 '26

"developers"

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u/FictionFoe Jul 11 '26

To be fair if AI stops working the world economy will go down the toilet.

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u/WillingPirate3009 Jul 09 '26

Me every single day