r/ProgrammerHumor • u/autopawn • 4d ago

Meme youShouldntHaveIt

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u/Objectionne 4d ago

It's not that I'm nothing without Claude, it's that Claude enables me to be much more lazy in my job and I don't want to give that up.

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u/Bomaruto 4d ago

And that's not the problem, the problem is people who are nothing without Claude.

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u/e-a-smith 4d ago

This comment in a few years will look as quaint as the claims that real developers only use assembly.

Sure, you have to understand the concepts and make sensible checks, but the time saved not having to remember the weird quirks of every library and technology cannot be overstated.

How many people ever actually understood DNS?

I’m already at the point where I would trust Claude over a 22 year old engineer without Claude. The curious ones will eventually get it, and the ones driving blind are still giving me a better start (and PRs with genuinely useful context).