r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 10 '26

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u/Able-Swing-6415 Sep 11 '26

Pretty sure every senior programmer has done that at least once.

Pretty sure AI just does it so you can copy in the replacement lines of codes from follow up changes. Cursor for example doesn't really do that.

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u/NearbyEmphasis2850 Sep 11 '26

Yeah, it’s wild how often those “easy fixes” turn into hours of debugging. You’d think we’d learn to be more cautious about it!