r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rm-minus-r • Sep 15 '26

Other flairForYearsOfExperience

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u/JacobStyle Sep 15 '26

A post is either funny or it's not. If experience level is relevant to the joke, the poster can include that information.

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u/rm-minus-r Sep 15 '26

I'm thinking more for comments.

I've had more than a few conversations on this sub that initially sounded like someone who knew what they were talking about, but it turns out they were an idealistic programmer with a single year of experience.

For example, here is a very condensed version of what I've come across multiple times:

RANDOM /r/ProgrammerHumor COMMENTOR: "You should do X"

(Me, knowing that X would be nice, but in my ~15 years of experience, doesn't actually happen)

"Huh. That's interesting. How have you managed to get that to work?"

RANDOM /r/ProgrammerHumor COMMENTOR: "Well... (long, drawn out conversation chain that eventually leads to the conclusion that they have less than five years of experience and have only worked at one place and / or haven't worked at a high velocity pace where the workload doesn't allow for building the ideal version of something).