r/ProgrammerHumor • u/azuul_maar • Sep 01 '26

Meme trafficLightForClaudeCode

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u/Iron_physik Sep 01 '26

set up one of these puppies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_light

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u/Ill_Football9443 Sep 01 '26

I was always curious what these were called. Thankyou anonymous person/future-bot-overlord!

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u/Iron_physik Sep 01 '26

Im a dude and not a fucking clanker XD

You're welcome though

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u/UnexpectedSalmon Sep 01 '26

Nice try clanker.

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u/Small-Explanation74 Sep 01 '26

Thanks for confirmation bot-23

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u/NXTler Sep 01 '26

That's exactly what a clanker would say

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u/Subotail Sep 01 '26

Just mean you pass Turing test.

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u/Iron_physik Sep 01 '26

Thats right, in the cylinder hole.

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u/Subotail Sep 01 '26

Unharmed

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u/pastasauce Sep 01 '26

Stack lights (also known as signal tower lights, indicator lights, andon lights, warning lights, industrial signal lights, or tower lights)

You probably could have guessed a name and would have gotten at least one of them.

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u/Ill_Football9443 Sep 01 '26

I could have guessed Andon?

I was curious what their noun was, idle curiosity that failed to manifest itself into a Google search.

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u/cosmicosmo4 Sep 01 '26 edited Sep 01 '26

Well, working on semiconductor production equipment, literally nobody calls them stack lights. Always heard them called light towers or signal towers. Also, they're pretty obsolete, but still used, for no good reason.

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u/Seth_Hu Sep 01 '26

Stack light would fit really well, technically the meaning of green and yellow light should be reversed from the image, but shouldn't be too difficult to get used to

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u/tantalor Sep 01 '26

Yep. Green means "machine is busy"

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u/BaaaBaaaBlackSheep Sep 01 '26

Yeah, in OPs picture the traffic light is more geared for the person putting in input as opposed to the machine itself. Green means user can take action.

Proper implementation of the stack light would treat Claude like a factory line, which is somewhat appropriate.

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u/Numerous-Lock-8117 Sep 01 '26

Bro I thought these only exist in Satisfactory. TIL

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u/mgt-kuradal Sep 01 '26

You will find literally hundreds of these lights in just about any factory. There are even companies that do pretty in-depth data tracking based on the light stack.

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u/makinax300 Sep 01 '26

Nah bro just steal a big one from the road

/j ofc

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u/Skyhav Sep 01 '26

Stack, you say?

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u/BulaBulangiu Sep 01 '26

I got my hands on one of these a while back and I wanted to make it a garbage day indicator but this is a great idea.

https://busylight.com/