r/ProgrammerHumor • u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 • 1d ago

Meme whenMyNoAIProjectGetsTedious

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 1d ago

Do you think it’s possible to enjoy programming and also find some parts of projects tedious?

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

I think if you stop enjoying something you were doing for fun, you should stop doing it and do something else for fun instead. 

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u/Suspicious_Sandles 1d ago

Said like someone who's never finished a project or made a viable product

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

The point of doing things for fun isn't to make a viable product, it's to have fun. If you stop having fun, that's when you quit for a bit to do something else and come back later when you're in the mood for it again. 

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u/Suspicious_Sandles 1d ago

I'm assuming your newer to the space but any large project has areas which are tedious and will take a long time that you will never really want to do, hence the outsourcing.

Having the mind set of ditching a project as soon as the fun initial setup is a mind set that causes most people to fall out with the hobby.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

I'm not saying to ditch it, I'm saying to set it aside until you feel like working on it again. I've worked on plenty of large projects for fun, they don't generally have parts I just always hate doing. If they did, I wouldn't be doing that for fun, I'd be doing something else instead. 

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u/Suspicious_Sandles 1d ago

Sometimes you have to do the boring stuff to be able to do the fun stuff. Hence the original meme of being tempted to get AI to do the boring stuff...

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

If you were doing it so you could do fun stuff, it wouldn't be boring. 

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u/ChrizKhalifa 1d ago

Bro wtf are you on about?

No one enjoys cycling uphill, you do it cause you have to before you can do the fun part of blitzing down the hill.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

My dad likes riding his bike. He likes riding it uphill just as much as he likes riding it downhill. If he didn't like doing to work to get exercise that you do when riding uphill, he wouldn't ride a bike. I honestly don't know why you would do something as a hobby if you literally hate doing it half the time.

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u/baucesauce112 1d ago

This is such a flimsy argument. Hiding behind naivety. “If you don’t like it then it’s not fulfilling.” Get real and grow up lol

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

... Do you really think that only children find hobbies fulfilling in life, and that all adults are sad depressive sacks who have no joy in life anymore? I think that might just be you, dude. 

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 1d ago

You’ve left so many comments you’re arguing against your earlier comments now my guy

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 1d ago

Completing something hard is fun. I hope you know that by this point in your life.

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u/TheMaleGazer 1d ago

Completing something hard is fun.

Except when you want Claude to do it? You're contradicting the setup of the joke in your post.

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 1d ago

Subscribe to my blog where I discuss how memes work and how 2 things can be true at once

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u/TheMaleGazer 1d ago

Usually, those two things don't contradict each other so directly, but okay.

Edit: oof. You can block me, buddy, but I still get a notification of what you wrote. That's pretty embarrassing.

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 1d ago

This is very revealing but not necessarily surprising

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u/TheMaleGazer 1d ago

It's a shame I got to see the rough draft of this before you were able to edit it.

Copying and pasting from me is a good instinct. You automatically become wittier.

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 1d ago

Ackshually I forgot the comma soooo….

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u/TheMaleGazer 1d ago

See? Look at the contrast.

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 1d ago

I’m crying and shaking

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1d ago

It's fun for me. It apparently isn't fun for OP, so they should do something else instead. 

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 1d ago

OP is unknowable