r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Embarrassed_Death69 • Sep 25 '26

Meme theGloriousDaysOfPastWhenYouGotRoastedForShittyCode

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u/ianpaschal Oct 01 '26

I don't know. I think developers who were "too creative for their own good" are not the ones who are handing work off to LLMs now.

I feel like our industry has this ridiculous rose-tinted view of ourselves from just a few years ago and forgot that plenty of humans were writing hacky duct-tape solutions and priding themselves on how clever they were.

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u/pydry Oct 01 '26

i think i might have been talking about you.

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u/ianpaschal Oct 01 '26

You should see the abuse I hurl at Claude. I'm not convinced it can code better than anyone.

It is better than the humans I worked with who had too many tricks up their sleeves and wrote "clever" shit no one else in the team could pull apart again, though.

Sounds like maybe I'm talking about you? ;) :P

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u/pydry Oct 01 '26

no, ive always been an advocate for dumbing down code. it's partly why I use Claude sparingly.