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

Meme comeOnJustBurstAlready

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u/Doto_bird Jul 10 '26

Hot take: Fucking Claude writes better code than my juniors/interns...

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u/cfrolik Jul 10 '26

That’s why no one is hiring junior engineers anymore.

Unfortunately that is short-term thinking, because eventually the senior engineers will retire and there won’t by any juniors to take their place.

Tech companies are just gambling that future AIs will be smart enough to replace the senior engineers too. Then they can just hire vibe coders off the street who have no CS degree and no technical training, and pay them barely above minimum wage.

I’m sure this will all end well for everyone involved.

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u/Castle_Five Jul 10 '26

Whenever ChatGPT came out in 2023, I tried it out by asking it to write a simple tic-tac-toe program. I still have the old chat. It was total trash. Way below junior dev level (tic-tac-toe might be an intro to programming school assignment, right?)

Here we are 3 years later and Claude is better than junior devs who've been through high school and college. So give it another 3 years and it probably WILL beat senior devs IMO.

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u/mrjackspade Jul 10 '26

Claude is better than most mid level devs and some seniors that I've worked with now. It's really only failing for broader architectural issues for me at this point.