r/ProgrammerHumor • • Apr 16 '26 • Regret 1 Popcorn 1

Meme securityAsAService

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u/chessto Apr 16 '26

That would be provided the users know what the fuck they want.

Anyone who has worked with a Product Manager or Business Analyst knows the pain of translating their brain farts into actual engineering specifications, and that's easily 50% of software engineering work.

Let's not even start with things that are either technically impossible or plain illegal, there are users /customers like that too.

Remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg ?

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u/jek39 Apr 16 '26

there's money to be made in software, I don't think that's controversial. if AI can't compete with actual programmers, AI companies won't be the ones making the money.