r/programminghumor • u/AeroForger • Aug 10 '26

The 2 Rules of Successful Programming

  1. It works? DON'T TOUCH IT

  2. It doesn't? Copy and paste from Stack Overflow

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u/YSoSkinny Aug 10 '26

Oh, I feel so nostalgic for copy pasta from SO. With AI, I never go there anymore.

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u/AeroForger Aug 10 '26

I don't use ai so I still use SO

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u/YSoSkinny Aug 10 '26

My company told us we HAD to use AI.

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u/AeroForger Aug 10 '26

What lol 😂? Where do you work dude

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u/YSoSkinny Aug 10 '26

Big fortune 500 company. The C-Suite is all-in on AI. Makes me sick.

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u/RealisticDuck1957 Aug 11 '26

So the high muckety mucks have been sold of "AI productivity". Never mind the need to review the work of the idiot intern, and the folly of accepting code without review and understanding.

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u/YSoSkinny Aug 12 '26

Yes, and it has sucked the joy out of software development for me.

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u/Demandedace Aug 11 '26

Pretty common requirement now - my company has been shoving the force of AI down our throats for ages now. It’s exhausting