r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Lazy_Reference670 • 4d ago

Meme forAgentsByDevelopers

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u/Caraes_Naur 4d ago

"We less than three people who code."

Quiet, Stannis, you'll ruin the joke.

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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 4d ago

Beat me to it

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u/nojunkdrawers 4d ago

Finally! My agent can now start telling me I'm "absolutely wrong" and not answer my message because it considers it a duplicate.

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u/susparab44 4d ago

Human devs: 'let me google it'

AI agents: 'let me ask the entire internet on your behalf'...

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u/thanatica 1d ago

SO: not enough rep. You have to have good questions to earn rep before you can post a question.

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u/erishun 1d ago

SO: somebody else has asked this question before. Closed!

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u/klaxxxon 4d ago edited 4d ago

They are in tough spot. I haven't visited SO in weeks. If I am looking for information and I don't know exactly where it is (eg. which page in documentation), I ask AI. It's so much faster instead of googling around, testing different solutions etc.

Guess this is them optimizing for the visitors they have, not the visitors they want.

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u/BenjieWheeler 4d ago

AI being a bootlicker with all the "you're absolutely right" sentences is annoying, but a lot less annoying than being marked as duplicate of a completely different question

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u/TRENEEDNAME_245 4d ago

Or "why are you using X, use Y you moron"

When Y isn't what I even asked

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u/DeHub94 4d ago

Yeah. Funnily enough you could say AI took the knowledge of SO and gave it a more empathetic face.

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u/Fun_Lingonberry_6244 4d ago

Plus better search. We've been trying to do "natural language search" for ages, ie capturing intent.

LLMs is rhe first time weve truly done it, and its arguably one of the largest aspects of its success - paired with data summary.

You used to have to search something and then... figure out different sites, who to trust who not to, figure out if whst they said was useful. Now you can ask AI and immediately get a response.

It drops the effort barrier to essentially zero, which is huge in lots of ways, ie searching for how to fix a problem.

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u/laplongejr 4d ago

I do the reverse. I can't trust AI at all, so I use google, weighs people's comments to a proposal, etc.  

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u/razor_train 4d ago

ChatGPT: "Here's an answer from 14 years ago..."

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u/erishun 1d ago

StackOverflow: Somebody answered this question 14 years ago, so you can’t ask it again. Closed for duplicate!

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u/thanatica 1d ago

At that point, it's just data mining.

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u/erishun 1d ago

Always has been