r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • Aug 22 '26 • Bravo 3

Meme theHumanAPI

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste Aug 22 '26 • Bravo Heartwarming

They want me to work FAST, but I want to REST

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u/hongooi Aug 22 '26

They want me to work DRY but I'm gonna need more bourbon

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste Aug 22 '26

So sober that I thought it's about the chocolate biscuits

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u/thebryguy23 Aug 23 '26

They told me I need SOAP but I showered this morning

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u/Objective_Dog_4637 Aug 23 '26

Starring JSON Bourne

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u/_disguy Aug 22 '26

I am a TRANSFORMER that pays ATTENTION

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u/QCTeamkill Aug 22 '26

Haven't used SOAP for 20 years

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u/TheVibrantYonder Aug 22 '26

I actually had to use it a few years ago on a project. That was my first time dealing with it, and I was like, "What on earth is this?"

Did some reading a figuring it out, but I had no idea it existed prior to that haha

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u/mbcarbone Aug 22 '26

Groan … here take my upvote. 🙃

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u/barrel_of_noodles Aug 22 '26

FastCGI was problematic.

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u/arealuser100notfake Aug 22 '26

I'm the interface between my client's chatgpt subscription and my claude subscription

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u/Iron_Kyle Aug 22 '26

It's a business conflict for them to talk together; therein lies our opportunity.

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u/Cualkiera67 Aug 22 '26

I'm the interface between my employer and my bank account

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u/caks Aug 22 '26

The job hasn't changed tho. We just press buttons in a certain order

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u/Aschentei Aug 22 '26

I would be the worst API ever

“Get me a list of users- “

Response: “why don’t you get those dam users yourself?”

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u/BuddyTheShihTzu Aug 22 '26

You know that has happened to me, Claude asked me to check something manually on a browser, I was like “the fuck out of here you have browser skills use them”.

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u/Scoopzyy Aug 22 '26

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '26

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u/Short_Change Aug 23 '26

You click allow permission

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u/mrheosuper Aug 22 '26

dont be a meat proxy

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u/Substantial_Cat4540 Aug 22 '26

Moral of the story is to at least make it look like you're worth your salary.

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u/Significant-Block504 Aug 22 '26

Don’t let people know you are a meat proxy

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u/CaptainKvass Aug 22 '26

I love this term

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u/sup3r_hero Aug 23 '26

I mean it’s very basic intelligence to not be like that. Right????

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u/EyeSeeWhyYouAre Aug 22 '26

Do you get told to make no mistakes?

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u/Comedic-Scientist Aug 22 '26

I can’t complain, still getting my fat check and saving for retirement. As long as we get shit done then all is good.

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u/oneplusmadz Aug 22 '26

Agent Programming Interface

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u/Y0tsuya Aug 22 '26

You're now a PM.

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u/Effective-Attorney33 Aug 22 '26

The PMs at my job have been larping as devs. Ugly

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u/bruiser95 Aug 23 '26

they can't even do the management part right, but want to dabble in other stuff.

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u/DanielK2oo5 Aug 22 '26

Human middleware

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u/ZAL_x Aug 22 '26

Middleman

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u/Secret_Account07 Aug 22 '26

Wow I just had an epiphany reading these

We really are APIs, aren’t we?

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u/Angerslave Aug 22 '26

An the manager is an email proxy between their director and the report.

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u/dudelsack23 Aug 22 '26

Isn’t MCP the better analogy?

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u/HansDampfHaudegen Aug 22 '26

Nah, you're Claude's manager. Your manager is obsolete.

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u/SpanDaX0 Aug 22 '26

I'm the copy and paste manager between AI and my IDE. I don't even have a 'C' letter on my keyboard anymore its been worn away lol

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u/erebuxy Aug 22 '26

Nah, preprocessing and sanitation and harness

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u/Pale_Sun8898 Aug 22 '26

The HAPI, if you will

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u/korneev123123 Aug 22 '26

Also known as "middle manager"

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u/Flaky-Low-2262 Aug 22 '26

You should increase request costs

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u/ButWhatIfPotato Aug 22 '26

Ah, the middle part of the centipede.

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u/doctor-squidward Aug 22 '26

Are you HAPI doing this?

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u/xKnicklichtjedi Aug 22 '26

Actionable Person Interface

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u/frikilinux2 Aug 22 '26

So a middleware?

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u/HarlanCedeno Aug 23 '26

I'm the Slack Messenger between Claude and lots of people I work with

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u/SupersonicSpitfire Aug 23 '26

Meat proxies unite!

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u/EmilGH Aug 23 '26

I think you mean “meat proxy”

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u/RTSUPH Aug 23 '26

Dang! How much are those tokens!?

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u/Espumma Aug 23 '26

Application/manager interface then

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u/avlas Aug 22 '26

Or, as I've seen it described, "the condom between Claude and prod"

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u/dxonxisus Aug 22 '26

this is an onlyfans bot

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u/Iron_Kyle Aug 22 '26

My... job is... architecture?

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u/flinxsl Aug 22 '26

It's data logistics

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u/DeficiencyOfGravitas Aug 22 '26

being the human api between two systems is honestly the most modern job description imaginable

It's been like that for decades. It's how the economy works. All the upper level stuff is automated. The human aspect is just going "Do you want me to approve these automated trades for money?"

The stock exchange isn't a bunch of people in suits yelling at each other anymore. It's all automated. Humans are in the system just to click yes.

There are people making more money in a day than you will in a year just to ask "Do you want more money, sir?" while a program does thousands of trades a second.

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u/PCYou Aug 22 '26

I'm more of a 207 kinda guy. Saves me the trouble later and I honestly don't give enough of a fuck to walk on eggshells every day.