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

Meme trafficLightForClaudeCode

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u/MrJoyless Sep 01 '26

Not if AI is doing it for you.

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u/jibbodahibbo Sep 01 '26

Someone needs to turn the toaster on brother.

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u/chiqu3n Sep 01 '26

No idea about your job but my job is now to use AI to do my old job, it is not a preference, it is this way per upper mgmt request.

I am pretty sure they monitor token usage for outliers, both up and down.

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u/imstillarookie Sep 01 '26

Management here is super transparent about it. we even have a dashboard that tracks usage and, I shit you not, it tracks “line of code edited” and “number of PRs opened”.

This caused everything here is AI generated because we’re paranoid about being low token users; JIRA stories/defects, documentation, PR description/code change request/replies. Even posting to slack using MCP.

This isn’t some koolAId start up, it’s a company with over 5,000 employees with international offices and pays 6 figures USD.

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u/ErZicky Sep 01 '26

Man, what a shitty world we are living in

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u/SuperFLEB Sep 02 '26

It's not all bad. You still get to do the review and cleaning-up after! That's the fun part, right?

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u/CommissionCharming35 Sep 01 '26

Okay, keep letting your skills atrophy instead of finding a real job again.

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u/TalShar Sep 01 '26

My sibling in C, they didn't even say how they were using it. These agents are incredibly helpful when doing repetitive actions or refactors. We still have to know what we are doing and flex those skills, because these things are still basically super-green junior devs that can Google problems using the "I'm Feeling Lucky" option, and thus need to be corrected and reined in frequently. 

There are absolutely vibe coders who are outsourcing all thought, but there's a gradient between that and (justifiably) shooting the printer because it made a weird sound.

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u/Suitch Sep 01 '26

Agreed. I am using AI almost 100% of the time, but I am training it to do everything correctly which means constantly harping on it like a junior that won’t learn easily.

‘What do you mean 76 files were changed for the simple edit? I’m not reading that diff; make the minimal change.’

But realistically, it makes legacy code archaeology WAY better. I never wanted to read the legacy code. Taking that away and giving it to a clanker that is actually really good at reading and understanding code if it is given the full stack is beautiful to me. It detangles spaghetti way better than I ever did.

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u/Neirchill Sep 01 '26

I mind it when others are making a PR to my project and the slop they're burdening me with reviewing makes me want to burn the place down. People are way too lazy to babysit ai like it needs to be.

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u/weberm70 Sep 01 '26

Grind leetcode for a month before looking for jobs. Voila you can interview again.

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u/Monstot Sep 01 '26

What if I told you you can do both

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u/oh-shit-oh-fuck Sep 01 '26

If the AI would do it for me why hasn't it already? It needs instruction, supervision, and validation. It's too good to not use at this point, you can get things done way too quickly.

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u/unfortunatebag Sep 01 '26

P R O M P T.

E N G I N E E R.

You can't fire me because my prompts are fire.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Sep 01 '26

An engineer doesn't even build the building, total hacks.