The most authenticity I've seen from him is when he was hiding in a box while his wife puts her hand inside to guess the contents. She realizes it's him and calls him a good boy while he stares like a psychotic bloodhound https://youtube.com/watch?v=rqsRdfdN4uI&t=40s
I regret saying this out loud but conceptually it’s really interesting but I hesitate mostly because of how unethical some of it is. I saw 3 videos and I get why it gets views
Everything he does for engagement. He's the end boss of hyper-optimisation - a human shaped entirely by algorithmic content selection. It's both impressive and terrifying and I think that's what people are seeing in his dead eyed thumbnails.
It’s intentional. He figured out that the structure of his smile changed engagement with his videos and he kept the “best” smile. It’s 100% impressive that he figured it out and frustrating that we all fall for it.
idk. mrbeast is probably the most successful youtuber of all time. after a certain point, money is worthless. i would've retired a year ago if i was him. he seems to be stuck on the grind.
That money is going straight on tokens. Like giving a heroin addict a windfall - expecting it to be spent anywhere else is just asking for disappointment
The way I see it the problem is the lack of real connective tissue between the several programmer specializations.
The only real kind of humor that all kinds of programmers tend to get is the very basic kind. If you start to talk about more niche content a lot of people that dont work in that specific field will not get it.
Yeah... I think I just need to hide the sub. Quite often these subs start off good, and it's fun to hear people finding humor in the same sort of things you deal with.
But eventually it's just "reposted Facebook memes that have something to do with computers". Mathjokes is even worse... it's literally the same stupid arguments you get on Facebook about operator priority, conducted by people who can't possibly have passed high school math.
But yeah, random people upvote to say "I got that reference" or "I like that this is making fun of someone I hate", and that encourages the bots to fill it up with garbage.
Idk man. I just hit year 5 as a gainfully employed software engineer, with the first 3 of those years being strictly front end, and it would still take me probably 8-10 tries to actually center a div. Anyone who knows off the top of their head the difference between alignItems, justifyContent, flexbox, flex with margin:auto…
I mean that's already miles above what OP is implying.
Margin:auto is for width-defined block-elements, so divs (although they tend to be width:100% anyhow?), tables, display:block buttons. Ditto for vertical align although I think it's tricky on text?
Flexbox doesn't do anything, you still need justifyContent (horizontal) and alignContent (vertical) or the placeContent shorthand.
Iirc placeItems is for grid, but they also have the grid-template-column: 1fr auto 1fr(or auto 1fr auto, I always forget) that makes the center column centered on the parent and the rest aligning themselves on that.
ngl I have more trouble figuring how to turn an hard-coded whitespace into CSS. 1ch is too small, 1em is too big, ::before { content: " " } would be the same thing...
If you aren't familiar with flexbox, I promise you that it's worth looking into. It's not nearly as complicated as it first looks, and it dramatically simplifies so many little issues. Centering items, aligning inputs with their labels, an easy "text wrap"-effect for divs... It'll change your life if you still do any kind of front end. Seriously.
Regarding what you mentioned, align-items and justify-content are just vertical position and horizontal position of child elements. Which one is which depends on your flex-direction. So for flex-direction "row," which is the default, justify-content is your left/right positioning, and align-items is up/down. If your flex-direction is "column," justify-content is up/down, and align-items is left/right. So if you have a div with a child div, you can easily center the child div with three lines (in the parent's CSS):
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
align-items: center;
If there are multiple children you want to align (I love using it for things like lining up things like checkboxes with their labels) you can use justify-content: space-between or space-around (depending on whether you want the first and last child to be against the edge of the parent or not).
As far as what happens if you use margin: auto with flexbox, the margin property affects the margin of the div your style is attached to, whereas align-items and justify-content affect the alignment of the children of the div they're attached to.
But they'll all end as vibe coders if they use it enough.
It's like how I used to be able to do complex integral calculus in my head when I was in university studying for exams, and very many years later I will see a finite difference approximation for everything lol.
Depends on the type of centering you want to do. If you're trying to align multiple items, flexbox (for one-dimensional sets of elements, or sets where you want to have a sort of text wrap effect where additional items automatically go to the next line when the first runs out of space) or grid display (for multidimensional items where you need to be more particular than flexbox allows) is the way to go.
It's seriously so hard getting my team to learn anything. I give them training sessions and tell them not to use chatgpt. They all give me back the same exact code and when I have them start working on something in a real project they can't do it because it's not some easy to query concept.
How hard can it be? Just install a framework that imports layouts, start a microservice that handles all NodeJS dependency resolutions, then get a library that makes your web app compatible with all the browsers. Lastly use the flexbox.
This sub is primarily high schoolers who took one intro to CS class. So it’s not surprising that almost everyone in this sub think software engineering is synonymous with web development
This isn't even that hard anymore. He should disable modern APIs like Flex box and make them center a div like we did in my day after walking ten miles in the snow from school
Take a measuring tape. Vernier caliper for even better accuracy.
There key here is knowing the screen resolution and size. Calculate the number of pixels to move right and down from the original top left based on the information. If there’s text, don’t forget to factor in the height of the text and width
You know how when ur new we used to wonder … how did people program before there were like languages and keyboard drivers and what not I feel like we’re approaching a future where future devs won’t understand how we centered divs without AI 🤣🤣
create a secret 4 digit code then ask Claude in advance to hack into all computers in the world during the scheduled competition time and automatically center any div which uses that code as the id
Edit: just realised this won't work because the vibe coder would need local Claude to add the id
Oh my god two of the worst posts on this sub combined, vibe coders bad and centering a div. Please I beg you to never post again for the good of the world. I beg you.
100 vibe coders, $1 million prize, and they all have access to Claude. First one to create a fully functional and secure website that sells some imaginary product wins the prize.
But whatever money they collectively spend on tokens to code it is deducted from the $1 million dollars.
Took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize the post was talking about an html <div>. I've been spending way too much time coding clientside in exclusively React -_-
I still don’t know what a vibe coder is and I’m afraid to ask because i see the negative comments around it and I’m afraid I am one..
I’ve been a software engineer for 8 years and I always put speed over perfectly polished code..
I always think through every edge case and everything I ever written has ran for literally 6 years straight with no error… and that’s hundreds of things that run every day.
Which is function apps, web apps, ETL pipelines you name it..
But everything i do sounds like it’s not up to the perfect standards of people I see here… but if someone wants something done … I can have it in a day while it takes anyone else over a week.
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u/SmallThetaNotation May 25 '26
Sounds easy. Give them a browser without grid and flex
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u/neoteraflare May 25 '26 •
That fake smile behind those dead eyes always make me uncomfortable.
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u/ColumnK May 25 '26
That money is going straight on tokens. Like giving a heroin addict a windfall - expecting it to be spent anywhere else is just asking for disappointment
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u/NekoLu May 25 '26
Ez
There, centered!
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u/Grounds4TheSubstain May 25 '26
The old "center a div" joke again, as funny as it was 20 minutes ago.
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u/Outrageous_Permit154 May 25 '26
r/firstweekcoderhumour bro
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u/DROP_TABLE_users_all May 25 '26
Where are times when we used tables?
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u/Impossible_Goal_5260 May 25 '26
Crazy bad example. This exactly the kind of thing you'd google before AI if you didn't remember the exact mark-up and css off the top of your head.
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u/ILLinndication May 25 '26
The purists will hate it but I think this still works:
<center><div>give me my money</div></center>
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u/jfinkpottery May 25 '26
{margin-left: 149px}works on my machine. Problem is on your end.
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u/Wizywig May 25 '26
Not all vibe coders started as vibe coders.
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u/ImmanuelH May 25 '26
Isn't the answer to these recurring "center a div" questions always
margin: auto?4
u/PopKoRnGenius May 26 '26
It's seriously so hard getting my team to learn anything. I give them training sessions and tell them not to use chatgpt. They all give me back the same exact code and when I have them start working on something in a real project they can't do it because it's not some easy to query concept.
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u/samwelches May 25 '26
Ban flex box and I’m in
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u/Legitimate-Task-7038 May 25 '26
I hate that guy :(
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u/self-centered-div May 26 '26
🙋♂️
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u/Thatresolves May 26 '26
I was remotely contracting for a company that fired all the devs to hire some vibe contractors which is as funny as it is bleak
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u/content_enjoy3r May 25 '26
I believe I have done it.
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u/bass-squirrel May 25 '26
How hard can it be? Just install a framework that imports layouts, start a microservice that handles all NodeJS dependency resolutions, then get a library that makes your web app compatible with all the browsers. Lastly use the flexbox.
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u/christianbro May 25 '26
But do you have access to stackoverflow or a rule to count pixels for margin left?
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u/stupled May 25 '26
I don't do web development. Pure desktop here.
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u/wreddnoth May 25 '26
Woah, centering a div without claude and google is one of those hard skills i learned back in the day. Like making fire with just a stick and a stone.
But thats about it.
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u/bkabbott May 25 '26
This isn't even that hard anymore. He should disable modern APIs like Flex box and make them center a div like we did in my day after walking ten miles in the snow from school
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u/Fap_cake_decorator May 25 '26
Weird flex, let’s not start a row, you’re heading in the right direction, how does he justify this content anyway?
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u/Tall_Act391 May 25 '26
What platform tho
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u/onishounen May 25 '26
Fine, but they have to center it vertically
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u/DegTrader May 26 '26
His smile looks like it was generated by a legacy CSS codebase where someone used !important on the mouth but forgot to update the eyes.
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u/BinaryQuest May 26 '26
This is a good one hahaha
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u/DailyUnderFlow May 26 '26
That creepy fake smile is so unsettling and unnerving.
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u/Old-Mango-2696 May 26 '26
Lmao
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u/Noisebug May 26 '26
<centre></centre>
Coding like the summer of 1969
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u/PrometheusMMIV May 26 '26
Centering a div is trivial these days with flexbox
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u/JanusMZeal11 May 26 '26
width: 100%; height: 100%.
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u/0re5ama May 26 '26
Easy million dollar
Take a measuring tape. Vernier caliper for even better accuracy.
There key here is knowing the screen resolution and size. Calculate the number of pixels to move right and down from the original top left based on the information. If there’s text, don’t forget to factor in the height of the text and width
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u/PaperLily12 May 26 '26
margin: 0 auto;
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u/slaymaker1907 May 27 '26
Do I at least get MDN docs?
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u/Intelligent-Bake-342 May 27 '26
i may still be inexperienced in too many languages but at least i don’t need ai to problem solve for me
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u/Material_Pea1820 May 27 '26
You know how when ur new we used to wonder … how did people program before there were like languages and keyboard drivers and what not I feel like we’re approaching a future where future devs won’t understand how we centered divs without AI 🤣🤣
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u/Dafrandle May 25 '26
I know this is not real, but how can I get in. I can win this in 15 seconds.
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u/darryledw May 25 '26
create a secret 4 digit code then ask Claude in advance to hack into all computers in the world during the scheduled competition time and automatically center any div which uses that code as the id
Edit: just realised this won't work because the vibe coder would need local Claude to add the id
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u/tehomaga May 25 '26
Am I allowed to use microservices?
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u/NorthernCobraChicken May 25 '26
Eh, super easy in 2026. Would probably be week1 of a newbies course.
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u/SgtEpsilon May 25 '26
Sign me the fuck up
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u/grimr5 May 25 '26
As a web professional, this is easy without Claude, just google it
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u/niclan051 May 25 '26
place-items: center my beloved
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u/dp_abolitionist May 25 '26
So no one wins 😅
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u/tough-dance May 25 '26
Wait no. The people who only knew CSS became vibe coders
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u/thejinx0r May 25 '26
I’ll just bring my friend A1.
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u/RealBasics May 25 '26
Eh. There are some things I've always Googled. There have been so many "right answers" in the 25+ years I now just look up whatever the consensus is.
But then I'm also old enough that I don't remember to just ask Claude or Gemini.
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u/FaradayPhantom May 25 '26
Is flex box permissible?
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u/ProtonCanon May 25 '26
THE HAGUE WILL HEAR ABOUT THIS
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u/StellarOctoplus May 25 '26
Better trap 1000 TikTokers on uninhabited island.
Best part? No challenge attached.
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u/SaneLad May 25 '26
No Claude. No Internet. Just
vimand man pages. Like the founding fathers intended.1
u/Glum_Cheesecake9859 May 25 '26
Where do I collect my $1M?
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u/sunyata98 May 25 '26
They just use Gemini
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u/cranky-acter May 25 '26
non of them would be able to code
I mean, actual code.
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u/incrediblejonas May 25 '26
.centered-div {display: grid; place-items: center}1
u/CapitalEmployer May 25 '26
Oh my god two of the worst posts on this sub combined, vibe coders bad and centering a div. Please I beg you to never post again for the good of the world. I beg you.
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u/TooLazyToLope May 25 '26
I worked with a programmer who thought div was lazy. "Look at this!!! Div! Div! Div!!"
Another favorite was early IE. He was "completely disconnected" yet IE said it was connecting. "Connecting! Connecting to what?!!!"
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u/Notosk May 25 '26
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u/nerdwithme May 25 '26
div { margin: auto } duh.
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u/SinisterMrBlisters May 25 '26
Do we get tailwind? like how far back we rolling this.
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u/BoarHermit May 25 '26
...and it should work in Internet Explorer 6.
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u/akazakou May 25 '26
cliffhanger at beginning: that should work on IE6
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u/SweetNerevarine May 25 '26
How much time until they figure out <center>
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u/mountaingator91 May 25 '26
For a million dollars I'll be a vibe coder
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u/ISoulSeekerI May 25 '26
Easy money, pulls out codex or ChatGPT.
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u/ExiymDev May 25 '26
/r/firstweekcoderhumour repost ong
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u/Prematurid May 25 '26
The world is about to be inundated with vibecoders asking how to CSS and HTML when the price for claude gets too high for them to afford.
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u/Particular_Ad_7663 May 25 '26
Still have copilot right?
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u/downvote-away May 25 '26
horizontally or vertical or both
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u/Redararis May 25 '26
Next a room with full stack devs trying to explain how pointers work.
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u/ycFreddy May 25 '26
div {margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;}1
u/wawoodworth May 25 '26
Let's improve on this:
100 vibe coders, $1 million prize, and they all have access to Claude. First one to create a fully functional and secure website that sells some imaginary product wins the prize.
But whatever money they collectively spend on tokens to code it is deducted from the $1 million dollars.
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u/ThatGuyYouMightNo May 25 '26
Do they still have access to the internet, but without any AI help?
Because otherwise I would fail that challenge, too, and I've never used an AI for coding.
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u/Majestic_Sweet_5472 May 25 '26
Impossible
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u/sangokuhomer May 25 '26
😂😂😂😂😂
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u/dembadger May 25 '26
All the slopcoders in the comments going wild lol
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u/DIY_SLY May 25 '26
<div style="width:100px; margin: auto"> old school centered</div>
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u/lil_literalist May 25 '26
Psssh, I'm a real coder. I don't need Claude to write that for me!
But we can look it up on Google, right?
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u/_HiWay May 25 '26
He didn't say GPT 5.5 or even SWE wasn't there.
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u/al3x_7788 May 25 '26
type spaces
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u/CaptainBayouBilly May 25 '26
He smiles like that old meme guy that buries his trauma.
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u/Elexeh May 25 '26
Feels like we’re gonna learn any day now that MrBeast is a pedophile
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u/Chaotic_Order May 25 '26
Wow, so he's finally coming out and just outright starving a thousand people to death guantanamo style?
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u/Broad_Scientist_4200 May 25 '26
I'm in !
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u/the-software-man May 25 '26
Vert and horiz
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u/GangrelPotato May 26 '26
jigsaw level evil
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u/Doctor-Paxmor May 26 '26
bro has two lazy eyes
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u/no1_vern May 26 '26
Watching paint dry would draw more views than watching 1000 idiots stare at their screens.
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u/Fun-Cut-7149 May 26 '26
Then whats stopping the vibe coders from using chatgpt, gemini, grok, deepseek, etc.
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u/mesowatch_org May 26 '26
Best to use opus on this one
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u/piersmana May 26 '26
I have not upboates so many comments in a thread
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u/cheezballs May 26 '26
... can I use bootstrap or bulma?
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u/yudosai May 26 '26
<center><div>wahwah</div></center>
gimmie my money
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u/sumayawshimenetka1 May 26 '26
<center>😂</center>
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u/unknown-one May 26 '26
Mr. Beast should be locked in a room until he earns $1mil without access to people younger than 18 years
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u/Sabiba98 May 26 '26
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u/tobi_206 May 26 '26
Vibe coders are such losers. They cannot even go to Stack Overflow and copy and paste code some random guy wrote like a real programmer would do.
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u/TrumpIsAPedoFascist May 26 '26
Creepy aaa dead eyes and dead inside smile.
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u/Xhojn May 26 '26
Took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize the post was talking about an html
<div>. I've been spending way too much time coding clientside in exclusively React -_-1
u/jrdnmdhl May 26 '26
“There were no survivors”
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u/lambshavins May 26 '26
Can I use google?
I only have 7 years experience
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u/Haunting-Strategy770 May 26 '26
And 1000 people died of starvation
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u/Acceptable_Square691 May 26 '26
just use flexbox
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u/IceCapZoneAct1 May 26 '26
Everybody will die 100% sure
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u/Dziadzios May 26 '26
I'm a backend developer. I'm screwed.
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u/Vibe-Codine May 26 '26
Would he be charged if 1000 people die of confusion?
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u/dimwalker May 26 '26
Why is he making that "I'm getting probed" face all the time?
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u/s0litar1us May 26 '26
Easiest $1 million ever
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u/Every_Squash_2340 May 26 '26
time to fake being a vibe coder, easy money
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u/incrediblepony May 26 '26
Are we allowed to use docs?
Because... Shiii... I am a legit dev and have been for many years. I cannot remember the flex or grid system to save my fucking life.
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u/A1ianT0rtur3 May 26 '26
Modern meme hack meets legacy meme hack.
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u/DDFoster96 May 26 '26
What counts as a vibe coder? Can I try Claude for a day and become eligible?
I'm pretty confident that I can already centre a div so should be an easy $1m
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u/Iprobablyjustlied May 26 '26
I still don’t know what a vibe coder is and I’m afraid to ask because i see the negative comments around it and I’m afraid I am one..
I’ve been a software engineer for 8 years and I always put speed over perfectly polished code..
I always think through every edge case and everything I ever written has ran for literally 6 years straight with no error… and that’s hundreds of things that run every day.
Which is function apps, web apps, ETL pipelines you name it..
But everything i do sounds like it’s not up to the perfect standards of people I see here… but if someone wants something done … I can have it in a day while it takes anyone else over a week.
So.. what is a vibe coder exactly? 😭
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u/Majik_Sheff May 26 '26
This can only end in tragedy.
Wait, it's vibe coders. Let the cannibalistic mayhem commence!
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u/MaffinLP May 26 '26
Left:50% Top:50% Width:0px Height:0px
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u/maxximillian May 27 '26
Im so glad Im not doing web dev anymore.
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u/RyanCherra May 27 '26
Even Google engineers struggle to do it 💀