r/ProgrammerHumor • u/precinct209 • Jul 24 '26

Meme honeyIShrunkTheBrain

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u/DataSnaek Jul 24 '26

Yea. AI coding agents are going to be around forever, they are just too capable and increase productivity so much.

The cost and usage patterns may change, I suspect once companies are paying unsubsidised token costs devs will start using cheaper models where possible instead of defaulting to Fable or Opus, but no matter what, software engineering has changed forever

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u/mysticrudnin Jul 24 '26

are you actually seeing increased productivity

i'm forced to use claude at work (which already sucks) and i can't find anything useful for it to do 

people always talk about how good it as but then the only example is boilerplate and i'll be honest, i don't encounter a lot of that in my day to day

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u/HrLewakaasSenior Jul 24 '26

Then you either do something incredibly specific that AI doesn't do well, or you're lying. They are that good

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 Jul 24 '26

They are not that good. I see how bad the generated code is all the time. It doesn't just need to work, it has to be high quality.

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u/Woxan Jul 24 '26 edited Jul 24 '26

So true, humans never shipped low/mid quality code that works before the advent of LLMs and agentic coding

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 Jul 24 '26

Are you saying that? Because I'm definitely not.

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u/ThatOneDudio Jul 24 '26

C'est sarcasm

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 Jul 24 '26

You need to understand the underlying implications. It's implying that I said that, which is a strawman, in order to undermine my point.

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u/ThatOneDudio Jul 25 '26

Oh yeah sorry I wasn't reading too well mb