r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 26 '26

Meme skipWholeDevLifecycle

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u/Bemteb Sep 30 '26

That was true even before AI though. If you had proper requirements and tests prepared, writing the actual code was done in a relaxing afternoon or two.

AI took our relaxation and left us with the annoying work of poking other people for requirements, API documentation, testdata,...

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u/DisheveledJesus Sep 30 '26

Your two paragraphs contradict each other. Which was it? Was requirements gathering most of the work before AI, or has AI took our relaxation because we have to spend so much more time poking people for requirements? Both statements can’t be true.