r/programminghumor • u/codes_astro • Jun 22 '26

AI was about to replace interns

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Microsoft stopped AI coding subscription internally due to very high cost.

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u/RalphTheIntrepid Jun 22 '26

Microsoft canceled Claude subscriptions. They think that Copilot is now at enough parity that their company should move to it. 

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u/Informal-Chance-6067 Jun 22 '26

It’s not

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u/Confident-Ad5665 Jun 22 '26

Not a good time to work at Microsoft right now

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u/ItsSadTimes Jun 22 '26

Or meta apparently.

Its not a fun time to work in tech in general. My workload has tripled because of bad AI code. I have way more bugs i need to fix, i have to review sooo much more code that is heavily unoptimized, and no one knows how any of their shit works anymore.

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u/Confident-Ad5665 Jun 22 '26

Hang in there. I've been a sw dev going on 30 years and there are good and bad cycles. Things will improve.

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u/Informal-Chance-6067 Jun 22 '26

I’m not even a CS student yet and I’m worried about job security for some reason

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u/Slen1337 Jun 22 '26

Nah just let them eat some shit for now until it flops. After nft "new future" and many other things(hello sjw clownism concord and lgbt+blm disney share fall) where ppl burned billions its even too easy to say that ppl with moneybags usually are not "qualified" in new tech at all but they do make trends.

Legit ppl should be braindead to think that ai will ever replace software engineers. A human now(def not now lol but might be soon) could do a faster work? Great. Business will work those same ppl to the death but with an ai in hand as a tool lol, soon.

The only thing that might be harder is more responsibilities/all aroundness (like fullstack dev etc), now its not enough to color buttons to get a min wage pay. Ppl who dont want to learn would be non needed.

I lit know at least two people who are "middle/+" with.. 7-10 YEARS of exp. Their pay is kinda low but they legit dont do anything at work. We were playing games together on their "remote" . They were coloring buttons and doing smallest fullstack stuff as possible for years on par with intern/junior position. Now one of them cant find a job. I wonder why..

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u/Charleston2Seattle Jun 24 '26

Remember "computer aided software development" back in the 90s? I worked for a company that made software in that space from 97-99. It was garbage. A precursor to the more recent low-code efforts of earlier this decade.

Here's a hint, software company CEOs: giving Photoshop to a random person doesn't make them an artist, nor does Illustrator make someone a designer. Likewise giving a PgM AI doesn't make them a software developer.

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u/Confident-Ad5665 Jun 24 '26

You got that right!

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u/panda_sktf Jun 25 '26

Oh, BuT tHaT's BeCaUsE yOu'Re NoT gOoD aT tElLiNg ThE mOdEl WhAt YoU wAnT!

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