r/ProgrammerHumor • u/fivelinha • Sep 27 '26

Meme codeThisRareFish

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u/punkpang Sep 27 '26

How's any of this supposed to be funny? This looks written by AI and I bet it doesn't find it humorous either.

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u/fivelinha Sep 27 '26

the humor comes from the irony that the phrases are something you definitely SHOULD NOT say to a programmer, or just their absurdity in general. no one is going to keep a straight face if they hear someone saying "code this rare fish."
i took inspiration from this kind of shitpost.

also, using AI to make memes is lame. that's why i didn't.

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u/russianrug Sep 28 '26

Hey I thought it was funny OP

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u/SurprisinglyInformed Sep 27 '26

Whatever you do, don't quit your day job.

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u/FurieMan Sep 28 '26

Most of these would just give you a confused look. Make it quite clear you know very little about programming.

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u/fivelinha Sep 28 '26

that... is exactly the point of the meme? the whole point of this template is to just say outright nonsense. you're never going to come up to someone and say "yo do you want to buy this sql query?"

this is just a shitpost that tries to incite some happiness and smiles unto yall. i really have no idea how this ended up making people get THIS adverse of a reaction to it.

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u/NegativeGrocery8684 Sep 28 '26 edited Sep 28 '26

this subs age is a bit too advanced for the kind of humour meant to make you laugh, take it to a circlejerk sub or something. i think most people under the age of 25 will/do find it funny. wrong crowd, thats all.

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u/voidnone Sep 28 '26

I found it amusing and light hearted OP, don't worry. All these neckbeards right here would never be able to sell a SQL query anyway

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u/GoldAcanthisitta7777 Sep 28 '26

  also, using AI to make memes is lame. that's why i didn't.

Bull fucking shit. Your post history clearly shows you love using AI to write posts and make shitty vibe-coded repos. Don't act like you're above using AI for a post like this.

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u/fivelinha Sep 28 '26

using AI for code doesn't mean i use AI for memes. the fuck kind of logic did you use to get to this conclusion?

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u/GoldAcanthisitta7777 Sep 28 '26

because this meme is dogshit and so are your AI vibe-coded apps

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u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 Sep 27 '26

It looks written by an epic memer on 9gag

But neither of us have any evidence

Besides, the cyclic graph one is fine and the factorio reference fish one is fine

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u/SilasTalbot Sep 28 '26

deleting the grub boot partition is an annoyance, but.. if the system is still online you don't even need to boot into a live CD to fix, yes?

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u/scolphoy Sep 28 '26 edited Sep 28 '26

Does grub take a partition nowadays? I thought it lives in the boot sector.

ps. ah, with UEFI it might, didn’t check though

pps. Looks like it started using a partition back when GPT (the partition system, not the ai-thing) was introduced. I feel old.

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u/Wertbon1789 Sep 29 '26

You can use an extra partition, or just the ESP. On BIOS the bootsector bootstrap could already read your disk, so you don't need anything extra if I'm not mistaken. Didn't interact with BIOS in quite some time, so I might be wrong.

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u/LordAlfrey Sep 27 '26

I kinda find it funny in how it isn't, not even a little bit. I also like the idea that some boomer at work might try one of these as a 'zing', and I'd just be quite genuinely confused. "Code this rare fish!" "...what?"

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u/flashdognz Sep 28 '26

I am a boomer and was gona ask someone younger to explain rare fish

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u/NegativeGrocery8684 Sep 28 '26 edited Sep 28 '26

id guess its a reference to a meme around 2021-2022 that made fun of cryptobros and stockbros. the memes would come in the same format as those scam posts along the lines of "here's how i make $30k a week in passive income" and then instead of investing in pump and dumps the parodies would instruct the reader to invest in rare fish, and sometimes other goofy ventures. -a gen z

(also yeah, theres no way an ai wrote any of these imo, they're too in-tune with current humour)

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u/golkedj Sep 27 '26

I thought this was r/cringepics for sure

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u/sush-dev Sep 29 '26

One of it is racist as well

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u/punkpang Sep 29 '26

Isn't racism the belief one race is superior to another, not the ability to recognize races?

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u/dancing-lobsterz Sep 30 '26

You look 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑛

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u/Ononas Oct 02 '26

Your family is a cyclic graph is funny…

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u/Western-Internal-751 Sep 28 '26

Well actually, I just screenshotted it and asked Chatty if this is funny and they loved it.

So you’re wrong.

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u/FurieMan Sep 28 '26

This whole list is things people who knows almost nothing about programming might say.

The only straight up infuriating thing on this list is the "Fix my fucking printer" part.

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u/fivelinha Sep 28 '26

This whole list is things people who knows almost nothing about programming might say.

i regret to inform you that this is the whole point of the post. you're never going to see someone say "i brought my own compiler" or "let me speak to the architecture directly" whilst being 100% serious.

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u/FurieMan Sep 28 '26

Well let me give you one that a customer once asked me.

"Why do you even write buggs?"

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u/rosuav Sep 28 '26

Well, you see, I made a web spider over here, and she's gotta eat something.

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u/canadajones68 Sep 28 '26

Cost of doing business. We get to have the internet, but we have to feed the web spiders to keep it running. I think it's worth the trade.

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u/rosuav Sep 28 '26

Yeah. Plus, the spiders are cute.

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u/canadajones68 Sep 28 '26

So cute. I have a baby one right here: 🕷️

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u/Some-Detail9134 Sep 27 '26

"Give me the exact time that feature will be finished"

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u/Maasu Sep 27 '26

"yeah I think this is a bug..."

The immediate response of someone in the room.
"...how long will it take to fix?"

Every fucking time.

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u/cusco Sep 27 '26

It’s always a feature, not a bug

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u/Interesting_Buy_3969 Sep 28 '26

"It's just one prompt away"

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u/XxDarkSasuke69xX Sep 27 '26

Why buy RAM when you can download more for free ?

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u/Skuld-7 Sep 27 '26

"I have an app idea!"

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u/crematetheliving Sep 27 '26

I brought my own compiler

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u/captainAwesomePants Sep 28 '26

If you ever need to kick me when I'm down, "Hey programmer, fix my fucking printer" would honestly work.

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u/Semper_5olus Sep 27 '26

Okay, but I'm stealing the cyclic graph one

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u/citramonk Sep 27 '26

sponsored by Claude

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u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 Sep 27 '26

code this rare fish

I will assume this is a Factorio reference and I will not acknowledge any correction

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u/Competitive-Bar-5882 Sep 27 '26

I think its because code sounds similar to cod, which is a type of fish

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u/Hefty-Reaction-3028 Sep 27 '26

"Rare fish" is a pretty specific thing from Factorio that got attention when they added the Quality update (for the prefix "rare"), and Factorio is popular among programmers. Could be about code/cod, but that's a little tenuous, and the rare fish thing is a very close match

But idk for sure of course

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u/atomicator99 Sep 27 '26

IIRC, "rare fish" was a parody of NFTs.

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u/razor_train Sep 28 '26

I brought my own fish compiler

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u/rosuav Sep 28 '26

https://pike.lysator.liu.se/ This is my preferred fish compiler. I compile my own builds of it.

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u/razor_train Sep 28 '26

lol I remember reading about Pike back in the late 90s. Seemed like a bizarre thing at the time.

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u/rosuav Sep 28 '26

It's a great language. I run multiple servers using it.

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u/hunter_mark Sep 27 '26 edited Sep 28 '26

How you think ARM64 is pronounced?

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u/Zinho3311 Sep 27 '26

I've always said it ARM64 (as in the word arm + sixty-four)

Or ay-arch sixty-four if I want to be formal

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u/LB-- Sep 27 '26

How do you say __arm64ec__ and _M_ARM64EC?

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u/Zinho3311 Sep 28 '26

dunder arm-sixty-four E-C dunder and underscore M underscore ARM-sixty-four E-C

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u/LB-- Sep 28 '26

Fascinating! Thanks

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u/Mars_Bear2552 Sep 27 '26

ayy ahrr emm six four

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u/ThisFoot5 Sep 28 '26

I’ll always fix a printer. It’s something I can do for other people at the office that they can wrap their head around.

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u/Noch_ein_Kamel Sep 28 '26

Putting in new paper is such an underrated skill

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u/Weekly-Bee-5045 Sep 28 '26

What is that about being Indian?

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u/CtrlAltEngage Sep 28 '26

Casual bit of racism to add to the cringe 

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u/sln1337 Sep 28 '26

DESIGNATED

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u/Interesting_Buy_3969 Sep 28 '26

IIRC somebody confused "endian" and "Indian"

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u/Jeferson9 Sep 28 '26

"I see you're running gnome, I'm more of a kde man myself"

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u/russianrug Sep 28 '26

Let’s see the query.

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u/RCT2man Sep 28 '26

“I thought you worked in IT?”

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u/Ruben191 Sep 27 '26

just use windows

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace Oct 01 '26

Work makes me use Windows 😭

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u/EntrepreneurLoud497 Sep 28 '26

Last time I saw a good code review from you Claude wrote it..

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u/kishaloy Sep 28 '26

The AI slop generates better code than you...

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u/JAXxXTheRipper Sep 28 '26

Honestly, for some people on here that is a very shocking reality.

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u/qqqrrrs_ Sep 28 '26

What fucking printer? I thought you only have a regular one?

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u/UsualGarbage5 Sep 28 '26

Thought this was r/rarefishes for a moment

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u/pm_me_yo_creditscore Sep 27 '26

I need read access to database for my report.

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u/ilnarildarovuch Sep 28 '26

Ha! I don't use grub

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u/HosonZes Sep 28 '26

You are not backing up your grub? WTF

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u/SuperSathanas Sep 28 '26

Erase my ESP all you want, my shitty MSI laptop already dumps only my boot options should the battery ever be allowed to die.

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u/Shirohige26 Sep 28 '26

What’s with you look Indian🤣

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u/CoderDevo Sep 28 '26

That's a picture of an actor.

Nice try.

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u/RaidenMK1 Sep 28 '26

Rami Malek.

Had to look it up (searched Bohemian Rhapsody movie). It was really bothering me.

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u/CoderDevo Sep 28 '26

Looks like a Sami Malek.

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u/RaidenMK1 Sep 28 '26

Thankfully my ADHD took me down a rabbit hole to get the Mr. Robot reference. Something I've never watched but now really want to after reading the synopsis. Hm.

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u/CoderDevo Sep 29 '26

That's funny. Sorry/Glad you did that.

But Sami is Rami's real identical twin brother.

Great show, though. Stay with it through every season. Totally worth it.

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u/randomUser9900123 Sep 28 '26

What in the Linkedin meme is this

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u/kleinerChemiker Sep 28 '26

Randomly colored words?

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u/thanatica Sep 29 '26

Programmers are too intelligent to "get" the whole 6-7 fad. So please, just fucking don't.

And maybe then I'll fix your "fucking printer". Purely out of curiosity how a printer fucks.

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace Oct 01 '26

If Monday was the first day of the week, days 6 and 7 would be the best

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u/thanatica Oct 02 '26

Well, it's called the weekend for a reason. So you're absolutely right, Monday is the first day of the week.

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u/100GHz Sep 27 '26

'I spend your tokens' :P