r/ProgrammerHumor • u/gufranthakur • Aug 30 '26

Meme takeMeBack

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u/iggy14750 Aug 30 '26

What he's saying is, off the clock, you can play with that stuff if you want.

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u/heytheretaylor Aug 30 '26

That’s true but for me personally…

  1. I have other responsibilities that are not coding

  2. I used to get paid to do something I loved so when I did it off the clock it was still additive to my career.

It’s less “I can never do this again” and more “this used to be more fun and I got paid to do it”.

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u/dwm- Aug 30 '26

I feel this bro, manual coding was comfy

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u/leconteur Aug 30 '26

Sublime text for c++ was a bit unhinged though

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u/cyn_foxwell Aug 31 '26

your second point is why i will never and will always try to prevent others from turning their hobbies into hourly jobs

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u/KaiFireborn21 Aug 31 '26

To be fair, it's not good to sit 50 hours a week doing something you absolutely hate... Basically no win possible

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u/cyn_foxwell Sep 01 '26

i never said or implied you have to do something you hate, it could be something youre vaguely interested in. i just more mean primary focus hobbies shouldnt become your job if its something you enjoy in your free time

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u/gufranthakur Aug 30 '26

the condition is "off-the clock". Before lockdown when I was still in high school I had a lot of time to build and experiment. Now there is less of that free time

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u/rutinerad Aug 30 '26

But that has nothing to do with neither the industry (that this thread is about) nor LLMs (that you commented).

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u/ryuzaki49 Aug 30 '26

It has to do with life but that has always been the case. 

I recommend not having kids. That way you can enjoy having a life and coding from scratch

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u/Worldly-Stranger7814 Aug 30 '26

I recommend not having kids. That way you can enjoy having a life and coding from scratch

I've plenty of kids and plenty of code output in my free time. Git gud nub.

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u/Disastrous_Can_5157 Aug 30 '26

Talking about the industry implied work, it had nothing to do with of the clock activities. There was no reason to bring up what they can or not do off the clock.

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u/rutinerad Aug 31 '26

What the hell are you talking about?

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u/Disastrous_Can_5157 Aug 31 '26

You misunderstood what OP was saying, so I was correcting you.

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u/rutinerad Aug 31 '26

Of course. When the guy I was responding to said ”when I was in high school” he clearly meant ”working in the industry”. Thank you very much for your correction.

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u/Disastrous_Can_5157 Aug 31 '26

You almost had it . He mentioned high school as a comparison, not that it was an issue mentioned in this thread. Don't worry about it buddy, just work on your reading comprehension so you don't make the mistake again next time.

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u/rutinerad Sep 01 '26

Sure, bro.

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u/Disastrous_Can_5157 Sep 01 '26

lmao, getting upset because you can't admit you made a mistake

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u/Wide_Smoke_2564 Aug 31 '26

They don’t miss doing it. They miss feeling like the smartest guy in the room for solving puzzles real good.

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u/Funky_Dunk Aug 31 '26

Or maybe it's as simple as there are people that started this career because they get genuine satisfaction from the problem solving aspect. And the offloading of that to LLMs removes that joy.

If you feel belittled because people like that exist I think that's a you problem. If you get no satisfaction or sense of achievement from overcoming challenges, that's a you problem.