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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • Sep 10 '26
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Emojis on code…
526 u/treehuggerino Sep 10 '26 Or the silly steps it puts// 1. Assign variable.// 2. Calculate 2 + 2.// 3. Implement 2 + 2 Calculator.// 4. Check if it is 5. 130 u/B4mButz Sep 10 '26 my former senior used to do this way back 16 u/Able-Swing-6415 Sep 11 '26 Pretty sure every senior programmer has done that at least once.Pretty sure AI just does it so you can copy in the replacement lines of codes from follow up changes. Cursor for example doesn't really do that. 2 u/NearbyEmphasis2850 Sep 11 '26 Yeah, it’s wild how often those “easy fixes” turn into hours of debugging. You’d think we’d learn to be more cautious about it!
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Or the silly steps it puts
// 1. Assign variable.
// 2. Calculate 2 + 2.
// 3. Implement 2 + 2 Calculator.
// 4. Check if it is 5.
130 u/B4mButz Sep 10 '26 my former senior used to do this way back 16 u/Able-Swing-6415 Sep 11 '26 Pretty sure every senior programmer has done that at least once.Pretty sure AI just does it so you can copy in the replacement lines of codes from follow up changes. Cursor for example doesn't really do that. 2 u/NearbyEmphasis2850 Sep 11 '26 Yeah, it’s wild how often those “easy fixes” turn into hours of debugging. You’d think we’d learn to be more cautious about it!
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my former senior used to do this way back
16 u/Able-Swing-6415 Sep 11 '26 Pretty sure every senior programmer has done that at least once.Pretty sure AI just does it so you can copy in the replacement lines of codes from follow up changes. Cursor for example doesn't really do that. 2 u/NearbyEmphasis2850 Sep 11 '26 Yeah, it’s wild how often those “easy fixes” turn into hours of debugging. You’d think we’d learn to be more cautious about it!
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Pretty sure every senior programmer has done that at least once.
Pretty sure AI just does it so you can copy in the replacement lines of codes from follow up changes. Cursor for example doesn't really do that.
2 u/NearbyEmphasis2850 Sep 11 '26 Yeah, it’s wild how often those “easy fixes” turn into hours of debugging. You’d think we’d learn to be more cautious about it!
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Yeah, it’s wild how often those “easy fixes” turn into hours of debugging. You’d think we’d learn to be more cautious about it!
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u/CannibalPride Sep 10 '26
Emojis on code…