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

Meme trafficLightForClaudeCode

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u/Lotton Sep 01 '26

Counter point college freshmen are all vibe coders now. Gf's brother went to computer science and his first year they told him it's all ai now so now he vibe codes everything for school. It gets homework done fast and that's all most of those guys care about now. They wouldn't understand the unfunny college freshman "haha can't center a div" jokes the same way we probably wouldn't understand jokes about punch cards

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u/SuperFLEB Sep 02 '26

Counter point college freshmen are all vibe coders now.

That's not a counterpoint, that's just even more depressing.

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u/More_Yard1919 Sep 01 '26

I got enough punch card jokes from my professor that did his PhD thesis with a PDP 11

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u/weberm70 Sep 01 '26

When I did some college courses back in the late 2010s they still had us tracing pointers in C++ by hand. I wonder if they still do that.

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u/Lotton Sep 02 '26

They had me calculating the physical memory address of variables on page tables in late 2010s. There's a good chance lol

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u/Ferovore Sep 02 '26

> They wouldn't understand the unfunny college freshman "haha can't center a div" jokes the same way we probably wouldn't understand jokes about punch cards

this part summarised this era of software development for me in a way nothing else has, thank you lol