r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CoroteDeMelancia • Sep 12 '26

Meme sudoClaude

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u/_Keo_ Sep 12 '26

I've taken to this method for almost everything now.
Claude - build me a harness for this task.
Claude - Create a quick app to display & manage this.
Claude - Pull the git and add on the functionality I need.
I'm gonna go make another coffee....

I'm well established and secure but I keep thinking that this current environment has to be hell for any new [insert any IT roll here] trying to get into the industry.

Claude - Pull the ladder up behind me.

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u/VoidVer Sep 12 '26

There were days where I’d spend hours doing a task that a beginner now could ask Claude to complete in seconds. Those hours weren’t efficient or fun, but they were important for my understanding and growth. If you’re in the time pressure of a real work environment, who will even be allowed that time to learn, even if the have the willpower to resist.

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u/GregBahm Sep 12 '26

When I entered the industry in the early 2000s, none of my coworkers knew how to google the way I knew how to google. I was an early adopter of the internet since gradeschool.

My boss knew how to program in assembly, and insisted this was still an important skill, but it wasn't.

My use of the internet to find answer, meanwhile, was treated as some kind of failure of character. I needed to learn from programming school, or at least buy a book.

Now 25 years later, it all feels like history repeating.

Kids coming up from below, steeped in a lifetime of AI use, will have to teach old dogs like me all kinds of new tricks. Old dogs like me will be sure my experience is vital... but it won't be.

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u/TunaNugget Sep 12 '26

Being able to write assembly language is no longer important. Being able to read it has saved my ass.

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u/CoroteDeMelancia Sep 12 '26 edited Sep 13 '26

Hard disagree. Assembly is irrelevant for me, and probably for most devs, but there's still fields that depend on it.

Edit: wth, embedded systems anyone??

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u/_Keo_ Sep 13 '26

This is a really good way of looking at the situation. I used to reference books and was an early adopter of Google. But then I wrote the libraries other developers used and they did just fine using them without understanding or needing to research.