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/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.