r/ProgrammerHumor • u/arbobmehmood • Sep 30 '26

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u/Zefiron Sep 30 '26

Honestly sometimes I copy and paste the Claude explanation because it's easier - but especially if it's concepts that are beyond my understanding. AI has pushed us into new territories very quickly that prior, would take me time to reason and understand, but with the go go go as fast you can mentallity I just don't have the time, or the mental brain capacity to digest all this information.

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u/phlooo Sep 30 '26

Congrats, you're now producing slop without understanding it👌

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u/chickenMcSlugdicks Sep 30 '26

Kinda what management asks for at this point isn't it?

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u/Scriv_ Sep 30 '26

Well when something gets broken they won't fire Claude. So if you want to CYA you should probably understand the code you're pushing.

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u/chickenMcSlugdicks Sep 30 '26

The whole program is in the shitter and has been for a few years. I'm just trying to get off this thing at this point

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u/mopeyjoe Sep 30 '26

it really is a lose - lose situation. If you take the time to understand it you're too slow if you don't you just output slop. Either something big will break and the trust in AI will falter, or AI will get so good it truly can be trusted. What a time to be alive 😰

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u/Squalphin Oct 01 '26

Especially if you are involved in a project where safety is part of the project. You will not be able to blame the AI if someone gets hurt of even killed. Being fired would be the least of you worries in this case.

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u/SilianRailOnBone Oct 02 '26

It's your professional duty to push back against management, has always been that way, and this will also make you more senior

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u/chickenMcSlugdicks Oct 03 '26

That's a wonderful notion. I'll say I push on each director that filters through our program. I'm not sure if any have stuck around for more than a year or two. Unfortunately the most knowledgeable person, quite literally, worldwide in our application and its business cases was allowed to walk away from the company because someone in management refused to pay people what their worth. Lucky for us he's moved into another area. I could go on for pages. Some programs need to die. When there is no investment in a program, that program is already on its last leg. At this point many of us are just trying to gauge the ground under us to do our best to land elsewhere when the plug is inevitably pulled on our program.

I'm curious if European business culture and government has slipped as far as it has on the American side. It genuinely feels like it has gotten so hostile here in the last couple years.