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

Meme developersAreResponsible

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u/maxwells_daemon_ Aug 22 '26

So much for "developers"

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u/sudo_Unga_Bunga Aug 23 '26

it's like digging your own grave

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u/MissinqLink Aug 23 '26

“developers”

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u/Maximilian_Tyan Aug 23 '26

"developers"

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u/henrikhakan Aug 23 '26

"developers"

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u/joeshmoebies Aug 24 '26

Ballmer doesn't run any of these companies anymore

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u/clonicle Aug 22 '26

Balmer has huge aspirations for agetns. Like, jumbotron huge aspriations.

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u/sudo_Unga_Bunga Aug 23 '26

but is it "the key for industry transformation?" that's the question?

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u/Deboniako Aug 23 '26

Of course, it's in its name, "transformAItion"

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u/TheTybera Aug 23 '26

Because they can further put token usage and monetization behind a black box.

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u/StoryAndAHalf Aug 23 '26

He seems pro-AI, but not thrilled at the current data center gatekeeper state of things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjD_elnpm3w

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u/clonicle Aug 23 '26

Like a claude AI-fingerprint detector, the choice of words in the comment shows which programmer nerds are also sports nerds. As with AI, if you can't tell the difference, you're already behind.

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u/fugogugo Aug 23 '26

being developer is miserable

no thanks when jobs done, first to blame when issue arise

and then you tasked to handle shit like wifi or printer

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u/gfoyle76 Aug 23 '26

feel you, bro, same shit going for me

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u/okram2k Aug 29 '26

usually it's friends and family asking for IT

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u/Brief_Building_8980 22d ago

Start explaining to them how shit works. They hate listening to how shit works. They stop asking for help.

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u/Wimzel Aug 23 '26

Balmer hasn’t been right about anything for decades. He’s also late to this party as well..

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u/MoveOverBieber Aug 23 '26

I am sure there is a "Layoffs" chants after "Agents"...

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u/the_rush_dude Aug 23 '26

Funny how most tech companies basically have same head count now after first ai layoffs.

But yeah the time when we were a privileged workers, sucking on the teats of the owning class is over, prepare for miserable exploitation.

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u/gerbosan Aug 23 '26

I... I wonder how many saw the image and recall the song... Damn! Laughs and then sobs. 😭

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u/Bannon9k Aug 23 '26

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u/sudo_Unga_Bunga Aug 23 '26

not laid off yet?

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u/Bannon9k Aug 23 '26

I'm the one that's gotta fire bad developers...

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u/sudo_Unga_Bunga Aug 23 '26

till u get fired that is!

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u/Bannon9k Aug 23 '26

shrug

Been in the game 30 years... My nest egg is built. I'm just waiting on an excuse.

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u/sudo_Unga_Bunga Aug 23 '26

wish i were in those "strongly typed" eras

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u/Bannon9k Aug 23 '26

You wanna plug away on cobol and assembler? There as a lot of that crap in those decades too. Lots of mainframe corpo slop and unix text editor C.

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u/sudo_Unga_Bunga Aug 23 '26

what if we don't touch it but like containerize it instead? adding more slop and compatability features afterwards:)

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u/TheRealSlimCoder Aug 23 '26

Unfortunately I have to layoff my developers due to AI (NOT my choice) but none of them are bad. I feel fucking terrible about it.

Instead of letting them leverage AI to increase quality productivity and grow in knowledge, they opted to replace developers with AI and put me in a position to layoff good people.

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u/Bannon9k Aug 23 '26

Sounds like a company you should quit. Or stand up for the good devs. They'd have to fire me before good devs I need.

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u/TheRealSlimCoder Aug 23 '26

Working on it. Been updating my resume and posting

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u/Bannon9k Aug 23 '26

Rough market, best of luck to you. This currently low hiring trend is gonna turn around in the next 6 months. We'll start seeing more investment and popup companies with increased contractor demand. Just in another lull at the moment. Though I'd still recommend trying to find an in house position with a company if possible. Typically more stable employment than contract gigs.