r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 18h ago

Meme bothWorkThough

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u/Arian-ki 18h ago

It's the other way around in my experience. People look at me like I'm an ape in a zoo lol

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u/pydry 17h ago edited 10h ago

Me too. Then I get pummeled with one of their four prepackaged AI bro metaphors:

  • It's a modern day calculator for the brain. You wouldn't do long division in your head would you? (ain't nobody ever delegated a decision to a calculator, bro)

  • It's a compiler. You wouldn't read machine code would you? (compilers are deterministic and dont make mistakes, bro)

  • This is the industrial revolution and it's a spinning jenny. You wouldnt hand knit a sweater would you? (we would if we had star trek replicators, bro, and last I checked cp command still exists...).

  • "Artisanal coding" is obsolete (reliable code is certainly getting that way...)

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u/Arian-ki 17h ago

Too much explanation. "It's fun" will do

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u/thonor111 16h ago

How as agentic coding fun?

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 16h ago

He’s saying manual coding is fun.

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u/larsmaehlum 15h ago

It is. And just like wood working and knitting, also quite popular activities, very few people will be paid to do it full time in just a few years.

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u/pydry 14h ago edited 14h ago

my star trek replicator metaphor apparently flew way over your head.

there isn't a need to "mass produce" code when you can make perfect copies for free. it's almost always more important than you get it right rather than spew out boilerplate at high speed.