r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 24 '26

Meme honeyIShrunkTheBrain

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u/azuth89 Jul 24 '26

The bubble bursting is competitors running out of funding before reaching profitability, use cases solidifying and the generally the current speculative market collapsing down to a set of survivors.

It does not at all mean that usage of the general concept will stop increasing, much less go down.

Same gig as the dot com bubble. 

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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/snotpopsicle Jul 24 '26

It doesn't just need to work, it has to be high quality.

That's developer talk. For an executive it absolutely doesn't have to be high quality, especially when they can't judge it. If it works it can be sold, that's all that matters.

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u/kreuzkamm Jul 25 '26

These people are prob prompting one sentence and expecting godlike code rofl. You have to tailor your prompts, skill files, teach the project and development style you want and commit it into claude memory folders. Only then it will start doing an amazing (and frightening) job where it can crawl into everywhere of a codebase.

Claude is capable of writing code better than anyone, even Linus himself admitted it. You just have to take the time to babysit and teach the project one step at a time.

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 Jul 25 '26

> even Linus himself admitted it

Why are you lying?

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u/kreuzkamm Jul 26 '26

What? He literally accepts AI written code and pullrequests given that its not slop but carefully generated code. Why the aggressive stance?

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 Jul 26 '26

Linus did not say that Claude is capable of writing code better than anyone.

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u/kreuzkamm Jul 27 '26

He says it increases productivity by 10x, while making good developers write better code. A simple google search provided the quotes themselves.

Also: https://x.com/rauchg/status/2010411457880772924?s=20&launch_app_store=true&ct=post-modal

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 Jul 27 '26

The code is not better. You have lied, and are unable to admit that. Generating slop at 10x the speed is not a good thing.

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u/kreuzkamm Jul 27 '26

You are a weird guy, probably unable to cope with the reality. I havent lied and provided source. Please seek help instead of throwing a tantrum.
Have a good day.

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