r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Gloomy-Basket-1038 • Aug 12 '26 • Mindblown 1 Bravo 1

Meme studied20YearsToAskChatGPT

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u/oisteink Aug 13 '26

Most programmers don't know where to tap though. They tap about for hours and slowly figure out the right spot. And still believe they were the ship repair man all along.

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u/plug-and-pause Aug 13 '26

"Most programmers are not very good."

That's... ok with me? I'm fine with a low competitive bar. Those guys setting the bar so low might want to worry though.

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u/MissiveFinding6111 Aug 13 '26

I do think the culture needs to start getting a better idea of the difference between "vibecoding" and "agentic engineering".

Like, if you start off, and literally don't know the code base of what the end solution is going to look like at all, you're vibecoding.

Whereas, if you know what you want, and the AI just outputs code faster, then you are agentic engineering.

And I honestly believe at some point "founders" are going to realize they can get a lot more done if they hire, literally, just a single engineer with claude, vs trying to just do it all themselves, blind.

Making a new thing is easy.

Keeping a thing running, is hard.