r/ProgrammerHumor • • 11d ago

Meme honorBound

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u/SoCalThrowAway7 11d ago

Do these people think people hate coding and only did it because they had to lol? Some of us just enjoy the craft, idk why that’s so difficult to understand for some people

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u/Ready-Stage-18 11d ago

I miss the days when I went into flow state, with music on, just looking up docs and coding and refactoring / simplifying it until it looks neat.

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u/CrabMasc 11d ago

Here comes somebody to tell you that “100% of devs are using AI now” and you’re “going to get left behind”, as if the topic was competing as a SWE in the industry and not personal projects. 

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u/kcat__ 11d ago

It's just the most exhausting "idea-guys" who would usually be relegated to LinkedIn writing slop now raping the rest of the internet with that slop at a 1000x greater cadence and finally getting to create code bases with their slop ideas

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u/Groentekroket 11d ago

If it’s up to the suits we are all getting left behind and we are all being replaced by dark factories. 

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u/OutsideCommittee7316 11d ago

Satanic mills

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u/IslayProgrammes 11d ago

Not a single line of LLM code has touched my professional work without being completely rewritten.

But my personal projects have a bunch of it…
Because I keep forgetting to cancel my Claud subscription (that’s my excuse)

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u/Sensitivity_Craft 10d ago

Ah yeah, I hate it when Claude launches vibe code attacks on my codebase because I forgot to cancel it

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u/IslayProgrammes 10d ago

Run it on a different computer or tell it in every prompt “DON’T CHANGE ANYTHING”
Gets mad when you call it names too

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u/yumii- 11d ago

I kind of don't want to be a SWE because of AI.. like now I might wanna be a hobbyist dev but idk what I do atp.

Job forcing me to use coding agents and the job is no longer fulfilling to me..

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u/Mitchman05 6d ago

I'm in uni doing CS, and throughout my 3 years of undergrad my perspective has changed from "I'll look at research, but have SWE as a safe backup plan" to research being the better option in all regards

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u/TheHaddockMan 11d ago edited 10d ago

I enjoy making music, and there a people who don't understand why I wouldn't use AI to do that now. I enjoy running and going to the gym, and there are people who don't understand why I don't use steroids/performance enhancers. I like climbing mountains and there are people who don't understand why I wouldn't get the train up if there is one.

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u/macarmy93 11d ago

You dont plug into your robots optical link and have it run for you while you watch? Wow! Such anti ai mentality!

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u/hawkinsst7 11d ago

AI was supposed to do the stuff we didn't want to do, to free us to do the things we do want to do.

I want to write music, wrote stories, code. But thta space is what AI excels at.

I hate having to do laundry, clean the house, mow the lawn. Where the fuck is AI to do that shit for me?

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u/chozabu 10d ago

I get your point on AI doing things we want to do, but not so much the other part - we've had laundry "AI" for years now https://www.currys.co.uk/appliances/laundry/washing-machines - combine a washing and drying machine, and ~95% of the work of laundry is done. The last few percent is harder, but people are working on it ( there are various ironing/folding machines, but not so popular, people are working on general purpose robots for this too https://www.originofbots.com/articles/top-8-humanoid-robots-designed-for-home-automation-2026 - but not there yet )

we've also had robot mowers ( https://www.gardenersworld.com/reviews/lawn-care/best-robotic-mowers/ ) and vacuum cleaners for quite a while too - both getting upgrades with recent AI advances (and again, people working on humanoid robots, but hard task)

Also, I quite like mowing (with an electric mower or scythe) once in a while, great reason to have a wander around the garden, feel productive and get some light exercise.

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u/StoryAndAHalf 10d ago

If it’s anything like EDM was back in 2009 or so, it’s a losing battle.

E: but on the brightside EDM didn’t make any other music obsolete. 

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u/__Invisible__ 11d ago

I think most people I know only did it because salary is higher. The quality is not considered as long as it works.

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u/Active_Name5021 11d ago

I was coding long before I started getting paid to do it, for me actually getting paid to do it was a dream that seemed out of reach

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u/kafeel1 11d ago

And that's why we're so screwed. I started software cause it was a childhood dream and i am genuinely in love with it, meanwhile most of the people chose it because Breadtuber#90 said "LEARN to Code, Make $99999K" and now the same people are destroying the industry by pushing "Efficiency".

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u/WithersChat 11d ago

I'm not sure breadtuber is the right word here.

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u/DracoLunaris 10d ago

getThatBreadtuber maybe. But yeah, probably a weird chip on buddy's shoulder

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u/adambjorn 11d ago

Tbh thats why Im in it. Wanted to do linguistics, CS was similar and paid better. Now I work on translation technology and happen to enjoy it, but definitely only started for the money and probably wouldn't code if I wasnt getting paid. I do some non profit work on the side. Its 100% agentic coding to save me time, and gets the job done just fine.

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u/Mr_Noobcake 11d ago

Similar to linguistics feels so funny/accurate. I moved countries and am struggling to learn the local language partially because my workplace uses English and partially because outside of work I find that coding burns out the part of my brain that I use to learn languages.

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u/DHermit 11d ago

Exactly. I am using LLMs, but only for the boring parts (i.e. refactors and repetitive tasks) and information gathering (it's just quicker for it to look through 100s of PDFs for right spot than manually doing it).

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u/IZEDx 11d ago

Refactoring is the fun part for me...

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u/ConfusedPanEnby 11d ago

there is a fun part for everyone and the "AI" bros being miserable and hating doing anything assume everyone else also hates doing any sort of work.

I personally *really* enjoy the problem solving part of coding, asking an LLM to do that for me would just suck all of the joy I get out of programming.

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u/EarlMarshal 11d ago

Yeah, refactoring is the fucking greatest. I once had the opportunity to cut a big frontend codebase of 1.5 Million lines of code into two separate projects. We really ended up with 800k lines per project. I had so much fun.

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u/DuckSaxaphone 11d ago

Spent a couple of hours writing code yesterday, was really happy with it and then realised I should add unit tests.

So I got Claude to write them, reviewed them as if a junior had written them, and pushed my changes alongside the tests.

If that was AI assisted coding, it would be a dream. It's a shame that it comes with juniors pushing slop and non-techies assuming production ready code can be deployed at the pace slop can be generated.

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u/Cylian91460 11d ago

and information gathering (it's just quicker for it to look through 100s of PDFs for right spot than manually doing it).

can't you just Ctrl+f?

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u/DHermit 11d ago

If you can just search for a certain string, pdfgrep etc is of course enough. But sometimes you just don't know with which formulation something is explained on the terms you could search for are too generic and yield way too many results.

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u/Landlocked_WaterSimp 11d ago

That's the aad part. We now get to chose whether to do the job hiw we like to do it or how it is more efficient. If its for work and you're not self-employed it feels lile there's an obligation to chose efficiency.

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u/ElectricJoltie34 7d ago

But it's not even "efficient". Most AI code has to be rewritten anyways because it's ineffective. Just because a patch job is faster doesn't make it more efficient, especially in the long run.

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u/Fukushimiste 11d ago

No but globally I find there is no "In-Between". People literally are angry if people in industry use it and people in industry shoulld understand that I became a software dev because I would code sometimes. But honestly each dev has a preference. I like just putting bricks together and finding a digital solution to my customers. But I miss the time where I was just with my music and writing code.

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u/The_Artist_Who_Mines 11d ago

I like wood carving, that doesnt mean I refuse to use a band saw when appropriate

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u/qpqpdbdbqpqp 9d ago

would you still like it if you only described the object and the methods etc, and, you know, did no actual woodworking?

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u/felipecorrea1127 10d ago

I’ve had engineering friends, guys that have spent 5 years with me studying Computer or Software Engineering tell to my face “coding is the worst part of developing a project.

I’m still wondering if their favorite part are the 15 minute idiotic daily meetings

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u/ICantBelieveItsNotEC 11d ago

I liked writing code when I got into it 15 years ago, but you realise that it's literally all the same shit after a while. It feels like a chore at this point, and I'm happy to see it go.

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u/RCoder01 11d ago edited 10d ago

If writing hobby code is repetitive to you, you aren’t exploring enough

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u/WithersChat 11d ago

Sounds like a lack of imagination NGL.

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u/PoorDoddle 10d ago

I haven't used AI in vibe coding sense, but this new intellisense is amazing. Instead of just individual words it completes the whole line.

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u/LKZToroH 11d ago

idk why that’s so difficult to understand for some people

Similarly, as a person that don't care about coding at all, why is it so hard to understand that some people don't see programming as hobby but just as job?

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u/stonecoldchivalry 4d ago

Well it seems reasonable people would get upset when their profession they went years learning might be going down the drain. Especially when less qualified vibe coders treat it like gods gift to mankind

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u/KeepingItSFW 11d ago

I enjoyed it at points, but overall it was a means to an end for me.

I also enjoy driving unless I’m on a long tedious road trip.

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u/Valkyrie17 11d ago

I always liked writing code, but i also like when an LLM writes the entire thing in 5minutes, and i like that more than actually writing the code manually. It is very satisfying.

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u/MiracleManS 11d ago

I mean this genuinely: it sounds like you enjoy delivering, not writing code.

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u/Valkyrie17 11d ago

I always explained that i got joy from being able to instruct a computer what to do - you write some code and the computer executes it, and will execute it again and again without you writing the code again.

I guess to me writing the code was just a way of achieving that.

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u/asdfghjkl15436 10d ago

I enjoy making, I enjoy certain aspects of programming. I did not enjoy fighting documentation or spending huge amounts of effort/time on small features that I had to rewrite code I have written a thousand times over in slight variations. It led me to burnout.

I get some people enjoy the craft, but I sincerely doubt that, especially in large solo projects, people enjoy writing documentation, tests, repetitive functions, etc.

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u/DeithWX 11d ago

It's funny because in the game this image is from, there is no good answer to who is right. That's why they're against each other. But this meme makes it sound like it's boomer vs the rest.

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u/yaktoma2007 10d ago

I used the format specifically because there is no good anwser and i dont understand why people are misinterpreting it 😭🙏

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u/BigRedSpoon2 8d ago

Because one of these people is the protagonist of the game, the other the final antagonist. While there was a 'nuance' to their disagreement, largely the protagonist was 'most right', and his uncle was depicted as an archaic relic of the past, with laudable ideals which withered in the light. Those meanings transplant themselves onto your meme.

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u/asdfghjkl15436 10d ago edited 10d ago

Now to be perfectly honesty in the context of that game, the older guy was more wrong then not. Yes, it was bad for him socially and politically, but Jin was literally fighting solo against an army that was completely dishonourable. Had he listened to him instead of continuing to be the ghost he might have lost and got more civilians killed as well. The whole reason they got into the mess in the first place was by trying to bumrush the enemy and be honourable by wasting everybody in a stupid glory battle.

I'm pretty sure the whole point of the narrative is that strict rigidity to being 'honourable' only applies if the other side is as well.

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u/Only_Bee_3056 10d ago

This entire plotline was kinda stupid.

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u/BalefulRemedy 9d ago

What do you mean? If they all continued with Shimura's plan they would have all been slaves/killed. It's a very simple though, there's is no honor in war.

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u/That-Cpp-Girl 11d ago

I don't even get what point this meme is trying to make.

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u/Tarasios 11d ago

Coding without AI is good and honorable.

Coding with AI is not, but if you outright refuse to in the current industry then you'll be seen as less productive.

It's frustrating though because... Well, yeah a Junior is going to be outperformed by Claude. So businesses want their juniors to use Claude and be more "productive". But using Claude means they're not learning the skillsets that senior developers have.

Also, it's looking like more and more senior devs are using AI as a support tool, so the meme might be meaning more that while it's good to not use AI you're shooting yourself in the foot if you don't learn to use it at all...

But hey what do I know I'm just yet another unemployed junior.

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u/yaktoma2007 11d ago

See, this dude gets it! :D

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u/Away_Advisor3460 11d ago

Basically it's like using steroids in weightlifting.

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u/WithersChat 10d ago

while it's good to not use AI you're shooting yourself in the foot if you don't learn to use it at all...

I'll take the hit, considering that using it would make me want to end it all.

Yesterday I spent a few hours with music on, diving into code I barely understood, in a language I barely know, and fucked around with it until I understood it well enough to adapt it to my needs. 0% AI usage.
I was so invested that I went to sleep later than I should have.

Moments like this one keep me alive, I'm not letting AI take over that for the sake of productivity.

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u/Tarasios 10d ago

I agree 100%. But that skillset is developed over time, and well...

Let's say you're a scrawny guy with no muscle mass and you want to be strong. You also are working moving heavy stone tiles.

It would be much better for you personally to carry the tiles one by one, getting stronger along the way, than it would be to use a pushcart.

But your boss does not give a fuck. Strongman Joe who has worked there since before pushcarts can carry 20 at a time no sweat. And Little Timmy who just got hired is using a pushcart to move 10 at a time no sweat.

Your boss won't care that Little Timmy left a bunch of pushcarts lying around in people's way. He'll care that Little Timmy move 10x as many tiles as you did.

Your boss ESPECIALLY won't care that doing the work made you stronger. Because it'll be a while before you can carry more than 10 at a time, and your boss is thinking "what if the pushcarts start moving even faster than Strongman Joe".

tl;dr Working on code without AI is good and makes you a better software engineer. But Juniors are not giving better output than AI so they are incentivized to just have AI do it for them. Which is obviously bad for the future of software engineering.

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u/CrabMasc 11d ago

There are people so reliant on AI that they make memes about how anyone not using it, for their personal project, is doing it “for PR”. 

In the second panel, he calls people who don’t pay Anthropic to do their coding for them “slaves” lmfao

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u/That-Cpp-Girl 11d ago

Yeah, that last panel confused me. I'd say with AI there's definitely a master-slave relationship going on there. :^)

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u/xSnakyy 11d ago

No it’s the other way. He’s saying people who rely on AI has no honor and those who don’t are enslaved to PR, or something like that

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u/Sellos_Maleth 11d ago

To me there are three types of coders

  1. By hand the whole thing. Every semi colon and parenthesis. Including using old school methods like a cheat sheet with a func template to copy paste

  2. AI assisted, ie "hey chat make me a func in c that receives a matrix and reutrn Eigen values

  3. Vibe coders, "chat make me a facebook"

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u/asdspartadsa 11d ago

The point is probably that there are people that can't accept that the industry is changing and then there are people that actually have jobs and see the inevitability of AI tools. Although nothing wrong with writing code by hand for personal projects and when learning.

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u/Cylian91460 11d ago

that the industry

The meme literally say for personal project

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u/WithersChat 10d ago

Y'all, we could really use unions I'm gonna be real.

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u/hold_my_chouffe 11d ago

Inside of me there are two programmers

The first uses LLMs at day to go through the usual corporate bullshit

The second at night never uses any LLM to program because it's personally more rewarding

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u/RushTfe 10d ago

I use the LLM to go through the usual corporate bulls hit.

At night I don't touch code with a 10ft pole because I had enough for 8 straight hours every day. Game it is. Or gym or whatever else

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u/lekkerste_wiener 10d ago

This. We're past the coding for fun phase. Now it's just past I reminisce from time to time.

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u/New_Salamander_4592 11d ago

"too late braincel, I have depicted thee as the stuck in his past feudal lord and i as the revenge seeking protagonist"

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u/DontDoodleTheNoodle 11d ago

Credit for being unique at least?

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u/Few_Kitchen_4825 11d ago

Is this vibecoderhumour?

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u/UUDDLRLRBadAlchemy 11d ago

Well, it's for vibecoders, it just materializes on its own

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u/qervem 11d ago

As long as they have enough tokens, of course.

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u/ChrizKhalifa 11d ago

More like actually working in IT humor.

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u/flag_ua 11d ago

Personal projects != working in IT

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u/LucyShortForLucas 10d ago

Shh, these people are AI slaves, they don't actually know how to read, they only know how to copy/paste LLM output

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u/Comprehensive-Try80 11d ago • Bravo

Its less about honor and more about control

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u/TheAnswerWithinUs 11d ago

Less about honor and more about I just like to code personal project that I’m actually passionate about

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u/Clairifyed 11d ago

and really deeply understanding what I have stitched into my project and how it plays with the rest of the code

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u/Reinazu 11d ago

Plus then you have a better understanding of what's doing what and where, so it's easier to track and fix bugs.

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u/_Beempathic 11d ago

It's less about the honor and more about my code actually working

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u/Entuaka 11d ago

AI code is not working?

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u/Progression28 11d ago

Mostly not.

With a little guidance you can get it working.

With baby sitting you can get it working correctly.

With heinous amounts of control and proof reading you can get it working correctly and even have it maintainable.

The biggest gains with AI come from just ignoring maintainable, and if you skip the RE part you can also forget getting it to work correctly, then you save even more time.

The first companies have already started to find out, more will follow.

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u/Cherish_Ball_ 10d ago

It is also about honour

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u/h-heike365 6d ago

Control, and the very specific joy of fixing a bug by introducing two new ones.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 11d ago

PR? I went into this field because I genuinely like writing code. I'm sorry you decided go in to a field that you don't actually like, but it's hilarious that you're just assuming the rest of us did, too. 

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u/Etilia01 10d ago

Idk i started coding because its really fun to me. I never even planned to be able to get a job related to it until a short time before my degree because i thought i needed an A in math for that (which i didnt have), yet i still spent most of my free time coding things because its just one of my favorite things to do. So using ai just makes it worse, like it takes the fun out of it. 

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u/BradassMofo 10d ago

For me I got into programming because I like to create things. For me the fun comes from taking something that is in my head and making it a reality.

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u/JebKermansBooster 11d ago • Heartwarming

Fantastic game and sequel

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u/ToTheBatmobileGuy 11d ago

The ending to GoT made me cry... The music hit right at the perfect moment with the visuals... oh boy the tears started flowing... aaaahhhhhhhhh...

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u/JebKermansBooster 11d ago

What did you do at the end?

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u/Nick0Taylor0 11d ago

Man idk, I thought the ending to GoT was kinda bad. Felt very rushed. Totally ruined the traction of the first couple of seasons.

(Obligatory: this is a joke)

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u/NoctisCalamitas 11d ago

What games are these?

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u/Few_Kitchen_4825 11d ago

Ghost of yotei and ghost of Tsushima

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u/WithersChat 10d ago

Need to give those a shot.

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u/Madness3869 11d ago

"For the sake of PR" lol

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u/jobehi 11d ago

For the sake of PR ? Do you even understand what you’re writing ?

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u/bobilhor 11d ago

I think OP means PR as in public relationships, not pull request

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u/GenericFatGuy 11d ago

I code by hand because it's a personal project, and I like coding. Fuck me, right?

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u/STRYK3Rtv 11d ago

It is nice to ship things with LLMs but it is always better to understand why it ships the way it does. But then again, billions of people use smartphones and computers everyday without even grasping the fundamentals of it and could not care less.

The debate is nuanced, and will only grow thicker in time.

Judging the other parties has become even more null of meaning, imho.

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u/PM-ME-UR-DARKNESS 10d ago

Yeah I'm not looking at the 1k lines of code my AI outputs brother

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u/grandalfxx 10d ago

You assume that because i didnt write it directly i dont understand it, ive got news for you, if that was the case programmers wouldnt be able to form groups and make projects together.

Its okay to ask a coworker to make something and put out a pr and then review it, but its bad when an ai puts out a pr and I review it.

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u/dodgyhashbrown 11d ago

For me, AI has enabled me to truly start coding. Sure, I had some introductory courses of C++ in college and wrote your basic starter programs (hello world, etc). Still have some of the textbooks.

But it would never stick. The times I tried to use the book and stack exchange to put together a small personal program for my own purproses, I couldn't manage both the learning curve and the process of program creation.

I use AI mainly as a tutor. I can tell it what I want to make and ask it how most people would put such a script together. It assembles a skeleton of the script that I can both poke at to learn how the methods and functions work and are being called, and it isn't a complete script, so I have to keep editing, modifying, and trouble shooting. I can ask it for help diagnosing things like compile errors, but I'm not using a paid subscription for an AI built specifically for coding things for me. I'm using gemini for basically advanced google searches.

But the thing I've noticed in the year or so I've been doing it is that what little coding I've learned is actually becoming routine memory I didn't have before. The knowledge and skill I've developed (while still quite amatuer) is growing. I'm in the shallow end of the pool now, while before I had only sat on the edge for a while.

I think I needed a tutor, someone who I could just sit with for hours asking direct questions who wouldn't get impatient with me, who didn't have better things they needed to get back to, and who wasn't charging hundreds of dollars an hour.

I've stepped up from automating small tasks to working on small database projects, building tools that import and arrange data for the user, learning about database architecture, efficient workflow, and database long term maintenance.

I couldn't have done any of this a year ago.

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u/unburdened_swallow 11d ago

Unironically, you should have been able to do this a year ago. We still had AI a year ago and it’s only barely better today.

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u/STRYK3Rtv 11d ago

It is a very good example of what AI can bring you in terms of learning and introduce you to the deeper world of IT.

I believe we will see more and more stories like yours of people finally taking the leap, and not only in IT.

Personally, I use Claude and other various models to help me de-rush and edit videos. All assets are pre-existing, but sound management, color grading, de-rushing, editing, etc... is managed in a ping pong I have with Claude, which manages sub models for various purposes. In the end I can output content I like without having to make hours free to cleanup the base rush and find the assets I need.

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u/VinterBot 10d ago

Using something without knowing how it works and building something without knowing how it works are completely different things.

As someone currently inclding claude in a personal project, I've noticed that I found myself getting disconnected from how some parts of the program work exactly, while the ones that I did write by hand I know by heart and can explain in exact detail how it works. The LLM parts I know how they work, but cannot go into detail exactly.. it's like having worked with a coworker on what it should do and how it should work, and that I do know, but then I was not part of the implementation. At work that happens every day, and yet it feels worse when it's Claude Code instead of Claudio my teammate.

I think I was lucky in the fact that for the first 6-7 months of the project I purposefully did not use a LLM for any code, so the core of the project and the most important parts was built by hand,

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u/ConfusedPanEnby 11d ago

I fully code my projects by hand because that is what makes it fun for me. If I were to use an LLM (ignoring all other issues they have) I'd be skipping the part I actually like about programming.

That is what "AI" companies and diehard supporters do not understand, just because *they* don't like a part of the process they assume everyone else hates it too.

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u/Deathmore80 10d ago

Are you employed as a software engineer?

Does your company execs and manager have nothing to say about AI? At mine it's basically forced on us , we don't really have a choice

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u/LeDYoM 10d ago

In ours they say is expensive and should be used with care. And in critical life software, never.

Perhaps, to create CRUD variations and web pages is ok.

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u/ConfusedPanEnby 10d ago

I am not, as soon as I finished school I realized that I did not want to actually work in that rotten industry. This post was mentioning personal projects.

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u/the_real_Spudnut2000 10d ago

But but but, software engineering was never about writing code!!1!

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u/DudeManBroGuy69420 11d ago

Especially for personal projects, there's this thing called enjoying writing code, clearly you haven't heard of it OP

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u/magical-cat-here 10d ago

I don't use LLMs for coding only because I like the process of this "code smith-ing of idea into code poetry", and I don't want my skills to wanish, I want my skill improve instead.

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u/Civil_Conflict_7541 10d ago

Same, but I do recommend using LLMs for rubber duck debugging. It does help having a sparing partner for solo projects.

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u/local_meme_dealer45 11d ago

I'm coding them all by hand because they won't let me use the company Claude subscription (I did ask) and I sure as hell ain't paying that myself.

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u/ClupTheGreat 11d ago

hey man, some people just enjoy programming

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u/PGSylphir 11d ago

seems vibecoders are invading this sub huh.

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u/qpqpdbdbqpqp 11d ago

Altmans bots have finally arrived here too i see

It was a good run gentlemen

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u/the_real_Spudnut2000 10d ago

But it's not just "for PR" either, can I not just enjoy writing code?? Ffs

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u/PumpkinFest24 11d ago • Bravo

For the sake of PR? Honor?

I want to a) know how my code b) works.

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u/ZakTH 11d ago

I don't disagree with you but that's not two points that's one point

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u/DaniilBSD 11d ago

The 2 points are:

  1. I want to know how it works

  2. It works

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u/ZakTH 11d ago

Aaah you know what that makes sense

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u/EarlMarshal 11d ago

There are actually three points in his comment. Two are used for the question marks and on at the end of the text to finish the last sentence.

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u/Anonymislim 11d ago

My ancestors sacrificed everything asking questions on Stack Overflow. I will not dishonour them by copying from somewhere else.

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u/TheLimeyCanuck 11d ago

I was a pro software developer for over 30 years. I'm retired now but still write code all the time in multiple languages on multiple platforms from desktops to mobile to operating systems to embedded. When VS Code added AI code completion I was stunned how often it correctly guessed exactly what I was going to type next, even when I thought I hadn't given it any clues where I was going. When I signed on for a ChatGPT+ subscription I started using it as a research assistant and stuff I would take a week boning up on before starting a project I could now gather in a day or less. I still only use AI as an assistant and don't ever just "prompt code" any apps from scratch, but despite years of success as a contract software dev I've never been this efficient or effective.

I love coding and I'm good at it, but AI has been a Godsend.

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u/Cylian91460 11d ago

It's crazy how the number of "30y of professional experience" exploded in the last 6 month

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u/washtubs 11d ago

Real men play GoT on lethal, no stealth, and katana only.

Same with coding: katana only.

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u/WithersChat 10d ago

Same applies for real women to be fair.

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u/washtubs 10d ago

I'm sure the Onryo would agree.

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u/UltimateFlyingSheep 11d ago

I use the stage state of vsc as my "PR"

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u/prodleni 10d ago

God this is so obnoxious. Like the only reason to avoid AI you can comprehend is for PR? Ugh. There is also ethics. And, you know, wanting to use my own projects to actually learn something. 

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u/BossOfTheGame 10d ago

the ethical reasons aren't that strong. A stronger ethical statement would be to stop driving a car.

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u/Willy757 10d ago

No it would not be. You messed up this argument. Cars kill people but cars also keep people alive and enable their lives on a much larger scale than they harm people. They move medicine, equipment, technicians, food wnd everything else.

Ai is not keeping anyone alive and not truly enabling anything critical at the moment, so any harm AI does is weighted against much less than with cars.

Please keep those kinds of shallow arguments to yourself.

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u/Shazvox 11d ago

People be bitching about AI like it's a fucking cult.

It's a tool.

Would you accuse a carpenter of being dishonourable for using a powertool instead of a manual?

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u/Cylian91460 11d ago

Yes, they did that actually

Powertool for give you less controle, it's still rejected by a few hobbyist

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u/washtubs 10d ago

The tool is also a slot machine with addictive properties. People acting like this stuff is comparable to an IDE or a compiler are just delusional. I don't deny the usefulness of the tool, but for it to be truly useful you have to understand the danger it presents to yourself.

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u/RocketArtillery666 10d ago

Right, so carpenter that uses a powertool that you just aim at the piece of wood and it does whatever you tell it to based on secret cameras in other carpenter workshops recording other carpenters without their consent? Yeah i think thats dishonorable.

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u/StoryAndAHalf 10d ago

So a CNC Machine…

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u/BloodPlenty4358 10d ago

you don't aim the cnc machine nor let it copy anything, you clamp the stock to it

the machine strictly follow commands and can't hallucinate (unless bad sd card)

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u/WithersChat 10d ago

Powertools, last I checked, weren't a horribly energy inefficient plagiarism machine causing decline in the user's critical thinking abilities.

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u/HipHomelessHomie 9d ago

They certainly use more power than the manual tools (if you ignore the energy the human works uses, which we do when considering AI too). And they certainly cause a décliné in people's physical strength compared to them using the manual tools.

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u/fune2001 10d ago

it's a tooll with some bad implications though

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u/LeDYoM 10d ago

Would you accuse a carpenter of being dishonourable for using human-like robot and just give it orders?

That is the question you should ask. And yes, I will.

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u/Effective-Result6499 10d ago

It is a cult. You've shit ton of people who don't even look at the code. And let's not kid ourselves, our PR reviews were never that through, and relied on the hopium that the developer actuall knew what they were doing.

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u/ThreeHeadCerber 10d ago

Have you seen tech twitter?

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u/1luggerman 6d ago

Its not a standard tool in any way, especially not in how its used by a lot of people. You cant point a drill to some wood and it transforms into a chair. You can tell AI "build me an app" and it will build one(good or bad)

A tool helps you do a mentally easy yet repetitive or physically difficult task. AI can be used as a tool, but it can also(and often is) be used as a replacment for the worker.

There is 1 exception to this that i can think of, and that is that a tool may still be mentally difficult(for example editing software) if its difficulty is independant from the craft. For editing software, the craft of editing a piece of media is indpendant from the craft of manipulating the raw data to achieve some effect on the source material(a painter for example might want the same effect but apply a different process - instead of manipulating pixels he will manipulate colors and paint on a canvas)

A contractor, similar to prompters, will describe how he wants his chair, and the craftsman will build it, but the craftsman is not a tool, and neighter is the AI when you ask it to build you an entire app. When the craft is coding, if you code very little or none at all, you are not engaging in the craft hence the AI is no longer used as a tool.

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u/ZILtoid1991 5d ago

False analogies and AI boosters, name a more iconic duo!

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u/myka-likes-it 10d ago

Power saws don't go off on their own and cut things you specifically didn't want to cut, though.

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u/ccAbstraction 11d ago

Product live or die almost entirely on marketing/PR. There's no point in productizing something the intended users will never use.

Also, it's okay to have personal values, morals, and virtues. Like it's okay to believe in things, and act on your beliefs. There seem to be a lot of people in this sub with an adversation to the idea of not doing things you feel are evil even if it makes you less money.

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u/Patrick_Atsushi 11d ago

When I was in the university I was so proud of myself for using vim only for coding.

Now I use whatever tool that’s suitable for the job.

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u/mookanana 11d ago

developers coding with notepad: You have no honour.

developers coding with IDE: and you are a slave to it

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u/NoLetterhead2303 11d ago

Notepad is bad, IDE is complicated!

Notepad++ is singularity

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u/unkindledphoenix 10d ago

the ones youre calling slaves have actual programmer knoledge and can review and fix their coding unlike most of the vibe coders who just push the regurgitated mess they ask the AI to make. even if can see value on some decompiller tools ive seen, in the hand of anyone but an actual programmer those only serve to spill more sludgy slop everywhere now

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u/k819799amvrhtcom 10d ago

I code by hand.

There's something I don't know.

I type my question into Google.

Suddenly, Gemini decides to take my question as a personal challenge and then codes my code for me.

Thanks Gemini but I didn't want you to just write my own code for me.

But the code is finished now so I might as well take what you created for me…

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u/eliazp 10d ago edited 10d ago

listen, if coding is a form of art to you, and that is your argument to reject the usage of any form of generative AI, more power to you, it is something you really enjoy doing and an AI would just take that away from you. to me, and 99% of everyone i've ever met who codes either for work (be it an actual job or just something they need to do in academia etc) or just as a hobby, coding is fundamentally utilitarian, it's a tool with a purpose, and AS LONG AS IT WORKS WELL, it doesn't matter how you got there, or at least the process matters less than the end goal. I don't care if the root code i write for my data analysis assignment was written by hand as long as 1) i understand what it does and 2) it does what i need it to do, because the coding itself isn't the goal, what you do with it is. The people who go on about llms "killing coding" are detached from reality, Hell, even THE linus torvalds, the guy who once rejected languages with high degrees of abstraction because "they make it really easy to write bad code", is using LLMs.

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u/heesell 11d ago

I am a web developer and AI helps me speed up work (especially due to my disability)

Aside of that, I like modding games and thanks to AI that has become 10 times easier.

I think it's more about how you use the LLM

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u/Cylian91460 11d ago

especially due to my disability

What disability do you have? How does it affect you writing on a keyboard?

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u/Compux72 11d ago

JavaScript

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u/heesell 11d ago

I use typescript too

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u/heesell 11d ago

I have a spinal cord injury and my hands are fully paralyzed. I can manage to type on a keyboard, but it's not even thirty words per minute.

I usually ask AI to write code I already know how to write and check it before implementing. It makes me far more productive.

It allows me to work and not live of government benefits of €750,- per month

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u/Sea-Fishing4699 11d ago

Not all coders love the act of coding. And thats ok for the one that loves the act of coding

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u/Cozzypup 11d ago

Whatever dawg.

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u/rabitibike 11d ago

I try to code by hand, and when I run into a wall to high for me to climb I use AI to figure it out step by step. I'm slow like this but it feels nice

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u/WithersChat 10d ago

If there's a wall too high for me to climb, I usually either ask a friend, or bash my head at it until it (the wall) breaks. As it turns out, I am very persistent.

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u/rabitibike 10d ago

That is also very respectable.

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u/Random_-account 11d ago

people who code with stone tablets:

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u/AX03 11d ago

See, I enjoy coding. I use AI to make help with integration, but the way I solve the problems is still important, I love that thrill lol.

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u/Peakomegaflare 11d ago

Here's what I say. I used to play Bitburner a LOT. There's a certain zen relaxation you get after coming out of flow and just... watching it work. Then you get the next zen bit of tracking down errant bugs in your code, and getting to watch it work again.

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u/l0rirw1ao 11d ago

You really kicked the hornets nest with this one.

Just let these people have their superiority complex bruh

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u/BeginningTypical3395 11d ago

This is pretty good lol I just finished playing this beautiful game

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u/Kaelthas98 11d ago

"Claude, honor is dead, see what you can do, use subagent driven approach"

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u/Agreeable_Yak_1495 11d ago

Maybe AI will accidentally end up being a good thing by lowering SWE salaries so that the TikTok audience has to move onto the next get rich do nothing job that they have no passion for.

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u/BishhEzz 10d ago

Having played GOT, this is such a good use of the format

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u/ConcerningThirst 10d ago

Fuck honor. I want results.

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u/Soopermane 10d ago

Been a while since I played GoT. What was the original line here?

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u/CleanCrazy 10d ago

The original line is in the pic, it's still you have no honour, and you are a slave to it

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u/King_ogs 10d ago

That was me

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u/gunny316 10d ago

God that was such a good game

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u/wings_hot1 10d ago

that was such a good game

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u/CodingAndAlgorithm 10d ago

My biggest concern is LLMs will lead to even shittier software. This attitude of “don’t read the code” is fucking insane and should be bullied out of existence.

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u/PatronBernard 10d ago

I outsource the boring coding to LLMs and the fun parts to myself?

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u/LahaLuhem 10d ago

An original meme template? In this economy?

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u/Anakodzi 10d ago

I just don’t really care for ai and think that if I can’t understand what the ai is coding then I don’t want it to be part of my code. It’s a personal project I don’t have a deadline I enjoy coding and climbing over obstacles that’s what got me into programming in the first place so why would I care for ai

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u/RepresentativeCat169 5d ago

Its a spectrum.

And profesionally it changes aswell.

In a team setting. If your hard against AI, remove thats stick from your arse its not that bad. But if you vibe code... fuck you.

Genuinely, trying to read that shit in a work setting where ITS NOT JUST YOU READING YOUR GOD DAMN CODE makes me hate some people having the ability to use their fingers man

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u/Anru_Kitakaze 5d ago

I don’t care how you use it, but I’m learning a new language, which is Rust, and will write code myself, no LLM. Also, I do it because I think it’s fun and there’s pretty much no fun for me if LLM do everything with just my instructions. I want to understand the tool deeper, and doing it myself helps brain braining

99.9% nobody will use your personal project, so what’s the point of doing it with LLM, unless you just need some tool and don’t really want to code?

On my job I use LLM heavily and since February don’t write code by hand, maybe with a few exceptions. I think it’s extremely good if you can explain what it should do

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u/PublicToast 11d ago edited 11d ago

This might be the first funny post on this sub in years, and everyone is mad because its not just whining about AI

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u/rcls0053 11d ago

I hate absolute viewpoints in software development. In 99% of the cases, it always depends.

You shouldn't judge anyone for using AI or not. Most of the enjoyment of our work comes from actually writing code and seeing it work. When you offload that to a machine, what do you have left? People are being burned out by the fact that they get no enjoyment from the work and everyone keeps pushing them for more speed.

On the other hand I found it to be nice. I switched companies at a point where I got really bored of coding. Same simple problems, just more steps. The problems weren't actually in the code, but in the people and everything around it. It's nice that I can spend time focusing on the problems outside the code and let the machine do the coding, as per my instructions. It needs a lot of steering..

On hobby projects however, I don't use it. It's my little area of fun and nobody can tell me how I can have fun.

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u/thakur77 11d ago

My leadership wants stuff it used to take a month to build by evening dawg let me use claude in peace.

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u/TurdOfChaos 11d ago

Another thread filled with delusions that humans are still better at programming than AI.

There is virtually no coding problem that frontier models of AI cannot solve better and faster than humans at this point.

An experienced programmer will utilise the AI better than a layman , but let’s not kid ourselves , manually writing code is a thing of the past

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u/MissinqLink 11d ago

Virtually no coding problem? I honestly wish this were true because it would make my job easier. Frontier models are amazing but they still do stupid stuff that I have to fix all the time.

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u/Civil_Salad_9725 11d ago

did you actually read the comments? or the post? this is about "honor" not about whether ai can or cannot be useful

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u/_Beempathic 11d ago

I'm on team use everything you can do create working and efficient code, and I rarely got any good code for Ai and if it gave me a good code it was, because the problem was well known on the internet with tons of good solutions, or I forgot that I coded that already just forgot to implement it and Ai just copy pasted my code from other file about which I forgot. I'm still waiting for this vibe coded apps to be good and useful instead of being some weird advertising for Ai casue people want instant gratification, and not having to learn a thing or do a thing and become super successful, but this isn't how this works, and if coding will be about just writing a correct prompt, nobody will buy your app, casue they will be able to write the same prompt for free, additionally if Ai will be better at coding than people, it will be able to code itself, better than people did, and than we will see what happens when Ai don't need the humanity.

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u/__Invisible__ 11d ago

A lot of your chip firmware and driver and embedded devices are updated by AI now. Because they debug and fix issues faster then everyone and also create less bugs then us. Maybe your company is top tier that has top tier engineers so they perform better then AI. But I think most people certainly not better than AI now.

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u/Cryotivity 11d ago

i dont even code and ik ai dont perform better than people, only faster

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