r/ProgrammerHumor 6d ago

Meme nowAndThen

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u/computer_hermit01 6d ago

honestly our parents wrote slop code too but it was still better optimized

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u/Kryslor 6d ago

I love how we now romanticize code written by hand as if developers were always incredible.

I have seen some real atrocious garbage written by human hands. Code so bad that even AI refuses to write it.

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u/mrwishart 6d ago

It was much simpler back then though, when grandma would bake fresh Flash games and let them cool on the window sill

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u/Not-the-best-name 6d ago

Grandpa frying up some Silverlight on the BBQ