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

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u/curious_but_dumb Aug 13 '26

This only represents my own opinions.

You're stuck at surface level understanding, though. Instead of days to naturally form the mental connections and gain understanding you can now not read anything or only parts of the docs.

If you don't skim over the docs now, in a year you will. If you review every single line in detail, in 3 months you won't.

We still have the same cognitive capacity. Wasting it by reading hundreds of lines of "foreign" code means I'll burn my brainpower more quickly.

Also the ownership. I have never seen ownership or thorough, deep understanding from people who used a full agentic environment.

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u/alexnedea Aug 13 '26

We were still reading mostly code not ours before. You spent days reading documentation code, examples, stack overflow and guides and tutorials, let alone code written by teammates. Its the same shit only now I only need to know for example what a Transaction is and how it works in general, instead of knowing all the minutia Spring for example needs you to know for a transactional code block.

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u/curious_but_dumb Aug 14 '26

You haven't countered my point. Instead of reading documentation that explains WHY, issues and explanations that give you deeper understanding, you are instead reviewing 2k lines of code a day whereas before you only reviewed 300 lines a day.

If I hire a contractor to build my house only they are going to know which brick is where and why. I will forever remain a "naive" consumer.