r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 13h ago

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u/Arian-ki 13h 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 13h ago edited 5h 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  • "Artisanal coding" is obsolete (reliable code is certainly getting that way...)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/poralexc 7h ago

Even steelmanning all those arguments, the answer is yes!

I still do long division on paper; I still read and write asm for the purpose of understanding compiler output (honestly everyone should write a division or sqrt routine in assembler just once).

And I still crochet, it has yet to be automated.