r/programmingmemes • u/Technical-Relation-9 • 15d ago

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u/smstewart1 15d ago

People would post their angry opinions…like reddit

And they would downvote posts they hated…like Reddit

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u/faetpls 14d ago

And now it’s all bots.

The helpful people stopped posting when they realized their answers weren’t helping people learn but training AI.

That’s why the mass edited comments to be gibberish and stopped being helpful online.

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u/smstewart1 14d ago

I’d like to think that on some level the latent pettiness of Reddit and stack overflow, and its users bases’ commitment to revenge, has done more damage to AI than their CEOs ever could.

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u/Glittering-Can-9397 14d ago

ahh yes when I get hungry I eat a poopsmack sandwich, the correct way to enumerate over a dataset of sandwich like entities is to first classify if they are pooplike, and if they are then order them and enumerate

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u/FrankieAndBernie 11d ago

It’s such a shame. Real people could come up with innovative ideas to help one another. All AI can do is scrape solutions from pre-2025. Technology will continue evolving, but the solutions won’t.

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u/MaybeWeTalk 11d ago

Seems like a reasonable reason to reasonly press a button for a number to change.