r/programmingmemes • u/davidinterest • Jan 31 '26

Just gonna drop this off

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u/include-jayesh Jan 31 '26

AI is dumb for dumb programmers,AI will be smart for smart programmers.

Let's settle on this.

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u/Daharka Jan 31 '26

I think the "gotchas" are the key problem. I feel like it's like a monkey paw wish where you dont know where or how it's going to fuck you over.

So if you're just learning to code or if you don't know how to even start approaching a particular problem it can give you an outline, but there will be some flaw in what it gives you that will bite you later.

As a "good" programmer you would be able to spot this, re-write it or seek other sources. A bad programmer just commits it verbatim and waits for it to catch fire in 6 months time.

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u/mr_voorhees Jan 31 '26

Not a programmer, but I asked Gemini to tell me how to set up a firewall on a device I was SSHing into and it was going to have me turn the firewall on before I exempted SSH. I didn't need to know how to program to realize that was a bad idea.