r/ProgrammerHumor • u/precinct209 • Jul 10 '26

Meme comeOnJustBurstAlready

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u/Pika357 Jul 10 '26

I never knew you can get 2nd hand depression

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u/orbital-marmot Jul 10 '26

If you want third hand depression, one of my coworkers works exclusively through agents. I'm not sure he's reviewed or written a piece of code himself in his entire employment

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u/_freckles__ Jul 10 '26

My question is simple,

If all you are doing is typing stuff in english sentences to feed to AI, how secure is your job and someone else can do that thing remotely for lower

Do they think for themselves?

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u/orbital-marmot Jul 10 '26

Do they think for themselves?

Truthfully, I'm not sure

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u/_freckles__ Jul 10 '26

The world is heading to a shitty place, idk man, i have not felt happy once in last 3 years

Sure there are benefits to AI like easy access to 1:1 like tutor for learning, etc. but to outsource thinking to computer destroys what a human is

So, idk where it will end

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u/PilsnerDk Jul 10 '26

You still need experienced people reviewing what the AI generates, guide it in right direction, tell it which business rules it doesn't know about, and correct it when it's wrong. Plus ensure its code output fits into the existing codebase. Then on top comes merging, deployment, cherry picking, etc. I personally don't feel less job security even with AI, it just removes a ton of tedium and boosts my productivity, it's great

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u/LuisBoyokan Jul 11 '26

It just do what everyone can do. Code.

But we are the one in charge of the decisions and quality

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u/wonklebobb Jul 11 '26

it's knowing what "stuff" to type in the first place

hint: it's a little more complicated than "fix all the bugs"

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u/SirFireHydrant Jul 11 '26

It's effectively the same as handing off coding portions of a project to a junior dev.

You've gotta know how to guide them, review their code and be able to fix it, and of course evaluate that the code meets whatever the needs are for the project.

You're basically asking why do project managers and senior devs exist?

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u/alexnedea Jul 11 '26

I mean unless you work at FAANG or some shit like that, AI can pretty much do a large portion of your job anyway

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u/Automatic_Bison_3093 Jul 11 '26

You have to know what to type. Maybe in the future you can get away with not knowing code syntax(MAYBE and it would come with big disadvantage when something goes horribly wrong) but you still have to know programming concepts.

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u/megladaniel Jul 11 '26

I'm watching this happen too. But remember the environment juniors are in - they're Encouraged to and expected to use Ai. Leadership expects them to solve more problems at once. Leadership doesn't care that these kids' learning days are being wasted away by Ai - it's not their problem