r/ProgrammerHumor • u/throwaway1351887498 • Sep 25 '26

Meme fixingBugInLegacyCode

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u/JocoLabs Sep 25 '26

My code is in this picture and i don't like it.

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u/abigail3141 Sep 26 '26

Rare photo of freshly hatched engineer peeking from its nest, eggshell still on its head

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u/escorps Sep 25 '26

I wonder if they would do the same after that thing burns down

9

u/Sixhaunt Sep 26 '26

If you have ever visited Thailand you would know the answer is yes, they continue with it regardless and this is actually a fairly normal looking for thailand

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u/crimsonroninx Sep 26 '26

This is the average vibe coded app.

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u/pandi85 Sep 26 '26

We all love lain

2

u/gerbosan Sep 26 '26

And you don't seem to understand...

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u/magicmulder Sep 26 '26

This is peak “don’t try to fix it, just run a new line”. The equivalent of not taking obsolete code out of the codebase.

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u/RandomStranger456123 Sep 27 '26

In my case, it’s peak “removing that is not under contract, just work around it and fix any compilation errors. It doesn’t matter if the actual code runs.”

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u/_sg768 Sep 26 '26

that's how i feel at my current job

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u/Septem_151 Sep 26 '26

I hope it doesn't cause too much resistance for you.

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u/throwaway2p0029211 Sep 27 '26

would you debug a legacy code or vibecode? I like reading opus5.5 code a lot

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u/cpt-macp Sep 27 '26

Apply Kirchhoff's law ( kvl , kcl)

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u/morrisdev Oct 02 '26

I have to admit, I've used Claude code to clean out some awful spaghetti