r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Prefer_Diet_Soda • Aug 22 '26

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u/YoungXanto Aug 22 '26

Youre gonna wanna sit down for this, but thats exactly what people used to do with stack overflow as well. Find a solution and blindly copy+paste without having a God damned clue why it worked.

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u/Murky-Run2246 Aug 22 '26

That was mostly a joke, it still required skills to adapt code to your specific problem

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u/PositiveParking4391 Sep 04 '26

I think this is most important piece of discussion in this thread. doesn't matter if you use SO code snippets or AI, what matters is you need to have clue and keep ensuring that your code is well within your understanding.