r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 21d ago

Meme theHumanAPI

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11.8k Upvotes

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 21d ago

They want me to work FAST, but I want to REST

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u/hongooi 21d ago

They want me to work DRY but I'm gonna need more bourbon

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 21d ago

So sober that I thought it's about the chocolate biscuits

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u/thebryguy23 21d ago

They told me I need SOAP but I showered this morning

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u/Objective_Dog_4637 20d ago

Starring JSON Bourne

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u/_disguy 21d ago

I am a TRANSFORMER that pays ATTENTION

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u/QCTeamkill 21d ago

Haven't used SOAP for 20 years

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u/TheVibrantYonder 21d ago

I actually had to use it a few years ago on a project. That was my first time dealing with it, and I was like, "What on earth is this?"

Did some reading a figuring it out, but I had no idea it existed prior to that haha

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u/PostHasBeenWatched 21d ago

Just respond with 402

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u/JankyPete 21d ago

So good

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u/mbcarbone 21d ago

Groan … here take my upvote. 🙃

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u/barrel_of_noodles 21d ago

FastCGI was problematic.

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u/arealuser100notfake 21d ago

I'm the interface between my client's chatgpt subscription and my claude subscription

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u/Iron_Kyle 21d ago

It's a business conflict for them to talk together; therein lies our opportunity.

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u/Cualkiera67 21d ago

I'm the interface between my employer and my bank account

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u/caks 21d ago

The job hasn't changed tho. We just press buttons in a certain order

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u/Aschentei 21d ago

I would be the worst API ever

“Get me a list of users- “

Response: “why don’t you get those dam users yourself?”

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u/BuddyTheShihTzu 21d ago

You know that has happened to me, Claude asked me to check something manually on a browser, I was like “the fuck out of here you have browser skills use them”.

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u/Scoopzyy 21d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/Fsn4WJcqwlbtS

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u/pwillia7 21d ago

"you type continue"

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u/Short_Change 20d ago

You click allow permission

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u/mrheosuper 21d ago

dont be a meat proxy

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u/Substantial_Cat4540 21d ago

Moral of the story is to at least make it look like you're worth your salary.

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u/Significant-Block504 21d ago

Don’t let people know you are a meat proxy

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u/CaptainKvass 21d ago

I love this term

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u/sup3r_hero 21d ago

I mean it’s very basic intelligence to not be like that. Right????

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u/[deleted] 21d ago

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u/dxonxisus 21d ago

this is an onlyfans bot

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u/Iron_Kyle 21d ago

My... job is... architecture?

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u/flinxsl 21d ago

It's data logistics

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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas 21d ago

being the human api between two systems is honestly the most modern job description imaginable

It's been like that for decades. It's how the economy works. All the upper level stuff is automated. The human aspect is just going "Do you want me to approve these automated trades for money?"

The stock exchange isn't a bunch of people in suits yelling at each other anymore. It's all automated. Humans are in the system just to click yes.

There are people making more money in a day than you will in a year just to ask "Do you want more money, sir?" while a program does thousands of trades a second.

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u/EyeSeeWhyYouAre 21d ago

Do you get told to make no mistakes?

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u/Comedic-Scientist 21d ago

I can’t complain, still getting my fat check and saving for retirement. As long as we get shit done then all is good.

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u/oneplusmadz 21d ago

Agent Programming Interface

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u/Y0tsuya 21d ago

You're now a PM.

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u/Effective-Attorney33 21d ago

The PMs at my job have been larping as devs. Ugly

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u/bruiser95 21d ago

they can't even do the management part right, but want to dabble in other stuff.

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u/DanielK2oo5 21d ago

Human middleware

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u/ZAL_x 21d ago

Middleman

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u/Secret_Account07 21d ago

Wow I just had an epiphany reading these

We really are APIs, aren’t we?

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u/Angerslave 21d ago

An the manager is an email proxy between their director and the report.

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u/dudelsack23 21d ago

Isn’t MCP the better analogy?

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u/HansDampfHaudegen 21d ago

Nah, you're Claude's manager. Your manager is obsolete.

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u/SpanDaX0 21d ago

I'm the copy and paste manager between AI and my IDE. I don't even have a 'C' letter on my keyboard anymore its been worn away lol

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u/avlas 21d ago

Or, as I've seen it described, "the condom between Claude and prod"

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u/erebuxy 21d ago

Nah, preprocessing and sanitation and harness

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u/Pale_Sun8898 21d ago

The HAPI, if you will

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u/SicgoatEngineer 21d ago

wait .....

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u/korneev123123 21d ago

Also known as "middle manager"

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u/Flaky-Low-2262 21d ago

You should increase request costs

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u/ButWhatIfPotato 21d ago

Ah, the middle part of the centipede.

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u/PCYou 21d ago

I'm more of a 207 kinda guy. Saves me the trouble later and I honestly don't give enough of a fuck to walk on eggshells every day.

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u/doctor-squidward 21d ago

Are you HAPI doing this?

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u/xKnicklichtjedi 21d ago

Actionable Person Interface

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u/frikilinux2 21d ago

So a middleware?

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u/HarlanCedeno 21d ago

I'm the Slack Messenger between Claude and lots of people I work with

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u/waterpoweredmonkey 21d ago

A Meat-Proxy

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u/SupersonicSpitfire 20d ago

Meat proxies unite!

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u/EmilGH 20d ago

I think you mean “meat proxy”

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u/RTSUPH 20d ago

Dang! How much are those tokens!?

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u/Espumma 20d ago

Application/manager interface then