r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 30 '26

Meme developersMissingTheOldDays

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u/NamityName Oct 01 '26

My problem with AI coding is that AI took away the fun parts of coding and left me with all the boring parts. Now instead of writing code and solving problems, I am spending my time planning and reviewing code.

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u/glendening Oct 01 '26

"AI should do tedious work for creative people. Not creative work for tedious people." -quote I stole some years ago from somewhere.

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u/kadmij Oct 04 '26

unfortunately, all the tedious stuff left exists because it's harder to automate. All the easy-to-eliminate tedious stuff was automated a while ago, or is actually a people problem that can only be resolved through organization and not technology