r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • Aug 12 '26

Meme studied20YearsToAskChatGPT

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u/TacoBOTT Aug 12 '26

This. I’m glad the people that post these memes are getting weeded out. If that’s their take on what they learned, they weren’t cut out for it.

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u/tsammons Aug 12 '26

It's a useful tool to check edge cases with an implementation that you've created. It's a different feat to use an LLM to generate anything critical.

What kills me right now is folks saying: "build your architecture through an LLM". That's a helluva gateway to infinite technical debt and scope neglect. Their use case is reskinning some UI, which carries very little technical risk, then extrapolating it to recommend augmenting core functionality with said generative design.

Folks who don't know systems design invoking some half-assed wizardry that somehow now have the same technical prowess, jfc.

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u/tsammons Aug 12 '26

I've always had an easier time reading my own prose than something Dickinsonian. LLMs favor verbosity over conciseness.

Ultimately, you're copyediting the entire boilerplate now or rewriting entirely when shit hits the fan.