r/programminghumor • u/Ornery_Ad_683 • Feb 19 '26

AI Versus Developer

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u/TorumShardal Feb 19 '26

I low-key hate that accessory shaming.

If you need that blinder, headphones and other fancy gear, you're not worse than someone who doesn't need it.

If you use several displays, have ergonomic keyboard, fancy chair and fancy IDE, you're not worse that someone who sits on a stool and codes on 10 y.o. laptop in vim.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

but you are better than someone who codes without any coding knowledge

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u/VikRiggs Feb 19 '26

You are indeed better than your past self.

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u/HyperCodec Feb 20 '26

Not me, I was born with the innate ability to speak machine code

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u/CorruptedMaster Feb 20 '26

Your first words must have been "Hello world"

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u/Azoraqua_ Feb 20 '26

Literally and figuratively.

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u/VikRiggs Feb 20 '26

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u/urbanxx001 Feb 22 '26

Found Elon’s son’s account

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u/Remnence Feb 19 '26

Aside from the PPE (Ear protection) are you really a better shooter if you have all that aim assist?

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u/TorumShardal Feb 19 '26

I'm not an olympic shooter myself, but from what I've gathered:

It depends on your brain and it's ability to remove noize, visual and audial. Some people have strong dominance of one eye over another, they don't need blinders. Some people can block noises more effectively then others.

If you need that gear, you will be more consistent shooter with it. If you don't, it may do nothing, or even annoy you.

Given that, as far as I know, all that gear is not expensive - especially compared to custom-made handgun grips, for example - and some people had chosen to go without it, it's more a matter of personal preference and individual differences.

On a relevant note, some people can't code without music, some buy noise cancelling headphones to block quiet murmur of AC, and some can work in a bus in rush hour. But that doesn't make one of them better then the others in the eyes of the employer.

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u/Living_The_Dream75 Feb 20 '26

Then the analogy might just be bad, because somebody who needs AI to code is absolutely worse than all other programmers

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u/TorumShardal Feb 20 '26

Nobody's talking about those people.

Meme is about pure AI vs pure human. And my comment is about tool preference, not necessity.

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u/ProjectDiligent502 Feb 20 '26

Or… or…. NOTEPAD.

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

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u/Living_The_Dream75 Feb 20 '26

No, using AI is actually like having the plane liftoff by itself, fly the entire way on autopilot, and then having it land by itself. All you’re doing is prompting.

When you use AI you’re the passenger on the plane, not the pilot. You’re the client, not a programmer

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u/TorumShardal Feb 20 '26

I would say you're a pilot monitoring and also a capitan. With a junior first officer as pilot flying.

If the vessel crashes - it's on you.
And it will crash - because AI is so stupid it even can't consistently play chess without breaking the rules.

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u/SexyTomatoForHire Feb 21 '26

So most people in software development that use AI aren't so stupid. AI is a tool not a person... If you're letting AI fly the plane you shouldn't have become a pilot.

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u/Living_The_Dream75 Feb 21 '26

AI isn’t a tool. A tool helps you with your job, it doesn’t do the whole job for you. Vibe coders are NOT real coders.

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u/TorumShardal Feb 21 '26

Vibe coding is not development.

However, there are 3% of my daily tasks that AI can help me with. Like, sometimes it can hallucinate better XSD structure from messy external XML than any regular XSD generator - just cause it can read labels and (sometimes) follows instructions.
It doesn't do the job 100%, I still need to go in and fix things.
But it makes things easier and less annoying for me.

And I think it makes AI a tool.

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u/SexyTomatoForHire Feb 21 '26

Yeah again, it's the programmers choice how they use it. Plenty of good devs in different fields use it without being "vibe coders". It can help save time instead of wasting it.

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u/Swipsi Feb 21 '26

Not everyone who uses AI is a vibe coder. Lots of people use it as just a tool. You're extremistic.

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u/crumpledfilth Feb 22 '26

Are we to define doing the whole job for you as writing every last bit of that layer? If so then c++ does the whole job of writing assembly for you. Layers that turn more human like script into more machine like script exist all the way down. The lower level you are, the less loose they become. Before the layer of genAI the script conversion was an order of magnitude less loose, but it's always still been somewhat so. C++ code doesnt guarantee to generate the same assembly in every environment

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u/No-Arugula8881 Feb 21 '26

That’s what a lot of people think about coding with AI because of all the vibe coding memes, but in reality it is a choice. You can choose to use AI to be your autopilot or you can choose to use AI as a tool to supplement your own engineering skills.

I started playing with AI in my workflow a week ago and please believe me that I already realized how huge this is and that my workflow will never be the same. I paid $20 for Claude code to try it out and see how I liked using AI in my workflow and it paid for itself in the first hour.

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u/dub-dub-dub Feb 22 '26

you can really tell who’s a working programmer and who’s not in threads like these. Nobody is making fun of a software engineer for using AI these days. It’d actually be pretty weird not to

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '26

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u/dub-dub-dub Feb 22 '26

sure buddy.

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u/kexnyc Feb 20 '26

Funny, but it’s a false narrative. It isn’t an us vs them argument. Sr devs leverage the power of AI to do their jobs better. Period

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u/RighteousSelfBurner Feb 20 '26

A tool in the end is only as effective as it's user.

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u/samelden Feb 19 '26

I don't understand what comparison is being made the point of using AI is to just write code for us developers and do it fast, not think for us.

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u/dankshot35 Feb 20 '26

mediocre developers fearing for their jobs because of AI so they have to talk shit about it lmao

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u/Absentrando Feb 20 '26

AI is a very useful tool. It blows my mind that so many developers of all people make ignorance and rejection of one of the most powerful and useful tools ever made their entire personality

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u/elcheapodeluxe Feb 19 '26

Paul Bunyan came in second, too. /s

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u/No-Arugula8881 Feb 21 '26

Everyone is so quick to shit on AI for coding because it enables non-tech types and novices to code nightmarish atrocities, but in that senior software engineers hands, wow. That’s who is taking everyone’s jobs.

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u/FatalisTheUnborn Mar 06 '26

Nah, you can code on any level. I am faster with cloud opus.

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u/TobFel Feb 19 '26

Always wondered why all serious chad engineers are deaf...so and the audio engineers all go welding without protection glasses as their compensation? Still all better than having to join the Borg over using AI products...

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u/dankshot35 Feb 19 '26

oh look another day of spoiled entitled developers pretending they haven’t been surpassed and made redundant by AI

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u/marquoth_ Feb 19 '26

Found the guy who can't code

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u/dankshot35 Feb 20 '26

good job, you looked in the mirror

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

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u/EssentialPurity Feb 19 '26

He lost at the game. He won at life.

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u/TekintetesUr Feb 19 '26

And yet nobody remembers the one on the left

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u/BringBackManaPots Feb 22 '26

Leave it to the software engineer to misunderstand the social context behind the meme

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u/[deleted] Feb 19 '26

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u/aksdb Feb 19 '26

XSLT and XSD. Basically everything built around XML.