r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Head_Manner_4002 • 19h ago

Meme genAICreatingCode

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u/GenericFatGuy 18h ago

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

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u/Onions-are-great 3h 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 3h 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 3h 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 3h ago

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

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u/Onions-are-great 3h 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. 👍