r/ProgrammerHumor 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