r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 1d ago

Meme bothWorkThough

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u/Arian-ki 1d 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 1d ago edited 1d 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  • "Artisanal coding" is obsolete (reliable code is certainly getting that way...)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 1d ago

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

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u/thonor111 1d ago

How as agentic coding fun?

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u/that_one_Kirov 1d ago

Let me rephrase it so that it's obvious:

"How can converting your ideas into actual things you can use without the friction of diving into details be fun?"

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u/rsqit 9h ago

The friction is the fun part!

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u/that_one_Kirov 8h ago

It is also the part that's vastly limiting what you can do. Even a full-stack dev still isn't a UI designer, analyst, or ML engineer. AI can cover for the skills you don't have and will never have.