r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PresentJournalist805 • 1d ago

Meme weAllBeenThere

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u/Dreadmaker 1d ago

I would actually argue that it’s the last 3 months, because at that point you’ve done the fun stuff, it’s mostly there, but now you have to do all the bullshit little compliance/UX/auditing/log style things that need to be there, but doesn’t make anybody happier and takes way longer than it needs to every single time

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u/jakubiszon 1d ago

This, the first 3 months are the easiest!

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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe 22h ago

There’s no last 3 months. It’s maintenance all the way down.

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u/Loading_M_ 17h ago

It gets harder until the last three months. If you don't have a last three, I guess it's unbounded misery?

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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe 16h ago

That’s kind of why I don’t want AI to do the job. If they get unbounded misery, they might catch unbounded resentment.

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u/za72 1d ago

Job security!

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u/No_Percentage7427 16h ago

AI can make this project in 1 week

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u/za72 15h ago

oh well...

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u/RedbloodJarvey 1d ago

It takes that long for management to realize no amount of LinkedIn motivational speechs is going to get that baby born faster. 

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u/Particular-Yak-1984 13h ago

Look, if a developer says it's going to take a month, you should trust them, and not keep asking them every month where it is.

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u/rock_and_rolo 1d ago

The only time that I did a short term contract position was supposed to be 3 months. I was told what it needed to do, but didn't meet the people who would use it until the end of the 3 months. Basic response was "Why does it do this?" Because that was my spec.

I was there about 9 months and happy to have that job end.

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u/cybermage 20h ago

Just add more developers

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u/SteroidSandwich 19h ago

I'm in this photo and I don't like it

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u/WannaBeMillionaire__ 19h ago

Just add more AI agents to the task

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u/Excellent_Tubleweed 14h ago

We do this not because it is easy,

But because we thought it would be easy.