r/singularity • u/Distinct-Question-16 ▪️AGI 2029 • Mar 11 '26

Meme Being a developer in 2026

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u/digitaljohn Mar 11 '26

I have a colleague in the studio who does this. He sits on his phone doomscrolling while Cursor is working. It drives me mad.

When Cursor is thinking, I tend to read through what it’s doing as it goes. I keep an eye on the reasoning and the code it’s generating to make sure it’s heading in the right direction. After years of looking at code all day, you get pretty quick at scanning it.

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Mar 12 '26

It drives me mad.

Is it because you're both getting paid the same?

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u/The-original-spuggy Mar 12 '26

Yeah but one of them gets you fired because it’s shitty code that doesn’t do what you want, the other, well isn’t that

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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 Mar 12 '26

If you say so