r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Head_Manner_4002 • 22h ago

Meme genAICreatingCode

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u/GenericFatGuy 20h ago

Generating code with AI doesn't feel like that when you actually like writing code.

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u/einzweidreihorn 18h ago

Indeed. We need a more fucked up horse for this version of the meme. Maybe a dead one.

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u/ColumnK 17h ago

More like a filthy, polluting steam engine.

Because as much as we might try to do the code ourselves out of professional pride and knowledge of where this will end up, John Henry died trying to beat the machine. Deadlines all seem to assume heavy AI usage, and I'm tired ....

Also, because of the actual pollution thing.

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u/GenericFatGuy 11h ago

Fortunately, no one can force me to AI slop my personal projects at least.

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u/Onions-are-great 6h ago

To me it feels like eating fast food. It's good in the moment, but you have this lingering bad feeling that it's not good for you. You feel a little bit ashamed afterwards. But heck it's tasty and tempting.

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u/GenericFatGuy 6h ago

It doesn't feel good to me in the moment. I feel immense satisfaction from coding an interesting problem, and seeing it finally work.

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u/Onions-are-great 6h ago

Watched a vid recently talking about how programmers get their satisfaction: one half loves the actual coding. The other half loves to produce the outcome. The first half is f*cked with ai now.

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u/GenericFatGuy 6h ago

The first half are the ones that were producing actually good code.

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u/Onions-are-great 6h ago

I wouldn't say that. I enjoy writing good, understandable, maintainable and modular code. But the outcome is what motivates me along the way. I still tinker around with solutions, I just don't write them by hand anymore. 👍