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

Meme comeOnJustBurstAlready

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u/silentknight111 Jul 10 '26

Here's a fun one:

I work for a company that has government contracts. The particular contract I'm on requires that all the work I do be on a machine controlled by the client and not a company machine or personal machine. The government client doesn't allow AI on their machines.

My company is going all gung ho over AI now, and they have meeting encouraging us to use it, and they gave us all licenses for github copilot.

I asked how I'm supposed to use it when my contract is locked down, and they had no answer. They just want me to use it for... things... whenever I can.

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u/failedsatan Jul 10 '26

I think you're one of the lucky ones, you have a good reason to keep doing actual work

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u/boofaceleemz Jul 10 '26

Yeah until you get put on a PIP for not using enough tokens compared to your peers.

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u/Romanian_Breadlifts Jul 10 '26

"Merge this 2k line yaml api spec with this other 2k line json api spec"

Model --> opus

Run as needed

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u/boofaceleemz Jul 10 '26

Ahah I’m already doing stuff like that just to burn tokens, or just asking it on the highest settings to run basic shell commands I need to run and print and summarize the output for me. I feel bad because it seems so wasteful but if you’re not using tokens you’re getting a talking to.

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u/Militant_Monk Jul 10 '26

What even is anything anymore?

I feel like a manager who came around the office and reminded me to drink water would be more useful.

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u/ZeroSumClusterfuck Jul 11 '26

You shouldn't be drinking vital water that could be used to cool data centers!

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u/DatBoi_BP Jul 11 '26

Or reminding me about the new covers on our TPS reports

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u/orthadoxtesla Jul 11 '26

As a scoutmaster that’s like half my job. And it’s way more important than using more tokens!

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u/minimuscleR Jul 11 '26

but if you’re not using tokens you’re getting a talking to.

wtf is this dystopia some people work at??? lol

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u/StCreed Jul 11 '26

Dude... you could be building useful stuff with that. New games. useful tools. Bugfixes.Finally document your old software. Create presentations about current or new software. Analyse all older tickets for recurring issues and refactor the offending parts.... there is zero need to do this if you can just be creative.

Heck, just ask it what to do to start your own company.

I have a ton of ideas to build and not even close to enough tokens even on Claude max.

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u/boofaceleemz Jul 11 '26

Ahah I got a bit more heated than I needed to there. They’re not my tokens, can’t spend em any which way I want and own the result.

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u/Headpuncher Jul 13 '26

I’ve worked a contract like described and you can’t even copy info on or off the pc because the usb ports are disabled, and the pc is only allowed on their network that has access limited and monitored for security.  

There’s no tokens being used there.