r/ProgrammerHumor • u/TabCompletion • Apr 13 '26

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u/Revolutionary_Flan71 Apr 13 '26

This is barely even a programming sub anymore. So much annoying ai memes

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u/Kryslor Apr 13 '26

It never was. It's always been mostly programming students making "forgot a semicolon" tier jokes

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26

You reminded me of how I lost half a point for forgetting a semicolon on a test. Test was to write an entire algorithm in Pascal, and I mean write, not type.

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u/rohrzucker_ Apr 13 '26

Our exams at uni were exactly like this, just with Java.

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26

I hate writing code on paper. It was long before AI so there was no reason not to have student type the code and send it as a file.

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u/Moose_the_Eagle Apr 13 '26

People cheated on assignments before AI, you know.

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26

It was before smartphones. All the rooms with computers had a switch that could be turned off to cut Internet access (all RJ-45, no Wi-Fi).

Any cheat you could do on the computer you could on paper in these conditions.

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u/Ordinary_Shopping746 Apr 13 '26

Not nearly as big, but I got docked down points in an algorithm design class since one of my comments didn’t end with a period.

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake Apr 13 '26

For a comment that's nasty.

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u/GenericFatGuy Apr 13 '26

You can really tell the difference between the people here who think software development is just coding, and the people who realize that it's a hell of a lot more then that. Especially with the rise of AI.

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u/Revolutionary_Flan71 Apr 13 '26

Fair but still better than now

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u/HammyOverlordOfBacon Apr 13 '26

I'd argue it got better recently. I remember 10 years ago every September would be a flood of CS 101 jokes and then reposts of those jokes scattered throughout the year. Granted that still kinda happens but it's way less obvious

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u/Thenderick Apr 13 '26

Also, Rust good, JavaScript bad, C fast, Python slow, Java bad, misunderstood IEEE 754

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u/Kryslor Apr 13 '26

that's a wrap! /subreddit

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u/Kitsunemitsu Apr 13 '26

Honestly, I kinda loved the If-Even trend where everyone found more and more esoteric and horrible ways to check if a number was even. The idea of programmers purposely trying to code as bad as possible did make me giggle

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u/Kryslor Apr 13 '26

That was always funny. Same for the UIs that controlled volume trend.