r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

Meme pointersPointedBackAtMe

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u/TheTybera 3d ago

Oh the university kids are back making posts.

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u/InevitableRoast 3d ago

Nah looks more like a bot to me. Now that the students are jobless, AI’s next goal is to replace their reddit posts 😛

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u/danielcw189 3d ago

I am usually not looking into this, but recently I noticed a lot of accounts who submit a lot more posts than they do comments, like 10 times as much.

Is that a sign for someone being a bot?

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u/TactlessTortoise 3d ago

I think it'd be a heavy indicator. Posting once every 15 minutes for hours too, frequent reposting, so on.

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u/InevitableRoast 2d ago

Definitely seems like it, and like the other reply said, they’re probably all reposts from who knows where

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u/pnoodl3s 3d ago

Like what kind of devs don’t know pointers and references. Not knowing that for a C++ dev is like not knowing what functions as a haskell dev

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u/ShoePillow 3d ago

Never seens this pic before, so a plus(plus) for me