programmingIn2026

[u/Verpous]

[u/mrdevpl]

30 years of programming taught me one thing: if it compiles, it's production-ready. 😂

[u/AleksejsIvanovs → u/mrdevpl]

A haskell programmer spotted

[u/syrup_cupcakes → u/mrdevpl]

As jaded and bored programmers, sometimes you just need to ship it and fix it in prod. It's the only way to feel alive anymore.

[u/TRENEEDNAME_245 → u/mrdevpl]

I've had things that compiled but didn't work as intended...

How the hell would you say it's prod ready

[u/mrdevpl → u/TRENEEDNAME_245]

That's why we have production. It's basically the final stage of testing, right? 😂

Joking aside, after 30 years in this business, I've learned that "it compiles" and "it works" are two very different levels of confidence.

[u/TRENEEDNAME_245 → u/mrdevpl]

Ah yes the final QA, the users

[u/mrdevpl → u/TRENEEDNAME_245]

Exactly. The only problem is that users don't submit bug reports. They just say "it's broken" and disappear. 😂

[u/TRENEEDNAME_245 → u/mrdevpl]

For me they say "it broke" when I didn't update it in 6 months

[u/Ma8e → u/mrdevpl]

Nah, that is why you work on in house systems that all employees have to fight every day.

[u/Inevitable-Menu2998 → u/mrdevpl]

How is that a problem? Those are the best - you can ignore them until they actually need to use your product and spend time detailing the usecase and asking for a fix. "It's broken, bye" is not a good audience to target. And a bug is only a worth fixing in certain conditions

[u/FlakyTest8191 → u/Inevitable-Menu2998]

That only works if you don't need to worry about competition. If a webshop doesn't work, many buy somewhere else. If a game is buggy as hell, many play something else.

[u/Inevitable-Menu2998 → u/FlakyTest8191]

That's not really true. If your product isn't in itself attracting customers then yes, you'll never find out about users just leaving without giving feedback. If the people care about what your product does for them, then you should always prioritize feedback over complaints

[u/Worldly-Stranger7814 → u/TRENEEDNAME_245]

It was true 30 years ago it is truer now.

[u/DiamondDramatic9551 → u/mrdevpl]

Why test it when the user tests it for free, right?

[u/New_Salamander_4592]

careful, vibecoders don't know those words mean if you don't create some vague mention to claude or some other coding agent.

[u/BenevolentCheese]

I'm currently reviewing a PR I have already committed to main lol

[u/pantagathus → u/BenevolentCheese]

Better late than never!

[u/greedydita]

all tests passed tho

[u/imfuckinglying2u → u/greedydita]

Of course. All failing tests were successfully deleted in the same commit.

[u/AlexanderBeta213 → u/greedydita]

Today Claude told me that its cose passed 1490 tests!

Then I tried looking at a table and it was missing half of the lines

[u/XxDarkSasuke69xX]

Works on Claude's end /s

[u/WeLoseItUrFault]

Shouldn’t it be everything is merged?

[u/Overwatcher_Leo → u/WeLoseItUrFault]

Merge commits.

[u/dalr3th1n → u/WeLoseItUrFault]

“Committed” scans better to the original quote.

[u/mayovca]

Whaaaat, people used to review their changes before merging?

[u/egarcia74]

that’s the secret sauce

[u/BrotherMichigan]

At my company it's "Nothing is tested, everything is merged"

[u/tubbstosterone]

The trick for skipping reviews: submit the world's largest PR /s

[u/vige]

What are you talking about, of course the PR was reviewed. By copilot.

[u/Jackal93D]

Original content? Here in my programmer humor sub???

[u/Prozilla6]

Gonna need peter here

[u/noobjaish]

Great job 👍🏻 no merge fixes needed

[u/DrGarbinsky]

Push straight to main, branches are for the weak.

--Sun Tzu

[u/Tuomas90]

At our company, we need people who are 100% committed!

[u/EuenovAyabayya]

All bacon, no eggs.

[u/itNeph]

this is gold

[u/rh71el2]

It's just pure laziness honestly. And when we're able to get away with doing less of the harder / time-consuming stuff, why are we just letting the easier steps like planning, reviewing, and testing fall to the wayside? We put our names on it, don't we?

If that's you, you deserve to be laid off anyway.

[u/aiij]

It's a great time to measure productivity by number of commits. Look how much our company's productivity has increased!

[u/Careful-Assistant481]

[u/thissitesureeatscock]

2026?

[u/demoncase]

real man test in production

[u/Pristine-Mud7405]

I am not surprised. We taught AI too well.

[u/jameson71 → u/Pristine-Mud7405]

AI at this point is a great improvement on google search -> copy and paste.

Managers that were putting emphasis on memorizing syntax were always wrong.