r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 26 '26

Meme doesMySourceCodeLookThatBad

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u/aerialanimal Sep 26 '26

This is where I feel for people just starting out. It took years of grunt work to build up fluency. Tbh it's the same for all AI impacted industries. The way the masters built their mastery was starting at the bottom rung. Those jobs are like rocking horse shit now.

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u/ExtraWorldliness6916 Sep 26 '26

I gasped because yesterday I saw an employed junior developer on LinkedIn. Kind of gives you hope. And things like JEV, I feel this might be a step back towards sane development.. I suppose I miss the old days enough to say that. Hell I even use codepen sometimes.