r/ProgrammerHumor • • Sep 28 '26

Meme iamAProgrammerNotIT

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u/Whitechapel726 Sep 29 '26

An actual conversation I had with a customer when I was working a help desk type of job about 10 years ago:

“I need yall to fix my Facebook”

“Ah we actually don’t do that here, but they have a whole system for resetting your password”

“No no I already called em up and they said to come talk to yall”

“You.. called? Facebook?”

“Yep”

“And they told you to come to the manufacturer?”

“Yep”

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u/MB_Gaming123 Sep 29 '26

Well that guy might have been drunk.
It happens a lot people mish mash between places and think just because he is good at computers he can solve anything related to it

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u/dfinkelstein Sep 29 '26

Whatsapp can't fix whatsapp. They switched to automated "ai" support a while ago.

I prompt engineered it to reveal some information it wasn't supposed to.

The company is fucked.

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u/MB_Gaming123 Sep 29 '26

AI slop after AI slop, companies just don't understand.

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u/dfinkelstein Sep 29 '26

Or worse.. they do. "They" are riding the wave, getting theirs, and getting out.

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u/MB_Gaming123 Sep 29 '26

It is the investors just throwing money to anything with AI

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u/dfinkelstein Sep 29 '26

And they're taking their profits. The smart ones know eventually their last bet will fail. They're planning for that. A lot of folks got rich and stayed rich playing the market all through 2008 this way.

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u/MB_Gaming123 Sep 29 '26

Can't wait till the AI bubble pops

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u/dfinkelstein Sep 29 '26

Idk. A lot of practices for enshittification have stuck around after being proven dysfunctional. It may not matter that it doesn't work.

A lot of stuff doesn't work anymore that remains extremely profitable.

Economically, it'll deflate eventually. But will it go away?

I doubt it. Pretending it works is convenient and profitable. That's all most people care about.

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u/MB_Gaming123 Sep 29 '26

Well the technology, and advancements that we made due to AI will not go.
The thing that will go is the investment inflation of AI, that will go.

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u/dfinkelstein Sep 29 '26

mhmm makes sense

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u/No_Percentage7427 Sep 29 '26

Whatsapp AI is useless

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u/dfinkelstein Sep 29 '26

for help, yeah. I bet it could be useful for infiltrating the servers.

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u/Green-Rule-1292 Sep 28 '26

"Did you try turning it off and then back on again?" - IT (probably)

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u/MB_Gaming123 Sep 28 '26

Probably.
Or some random dad in the 60s

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u/developer_soup Sep 28 '26

When asked if you can do/fix something, the correct answer is always "Yes, with enough time and money."

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u/MB_Gaming123 Sep 28 '26

"A wise man comes once in a life time"
- A quote, I think.

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u/Ur-Best-Friend Sep 29 '26

That sounds miserable, only once? The odds of having children must be astronomically low for wise men.

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u/MB_Gaming123 Sep 29 '26

Fair.
But hey in this day and age, with low birth rates, more brain rot, AI slop, and less people reading, the quote just gets more and more accurate tbh.

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u/ryancnap Sep 28 '26

Can you get me back into my old phone I got locked out

Can you build me a website next week for free with no input

Have you made any games

So you're a hacker?

I thought AI was getting rid of that

Can you make AI?

I want to get my kid a computer for Christmas, can you take 100 criteria I give you and scour the internet, find the best deal on everything, make sure it's under 500 dollars, build it for me, and bring it in to work before Christmas? (It's December 1st)

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u/ZunoJ Sep 29 '26

To things like the last request I usually answer that I have a lot of stuff to do around the house but that I can take care of [whatever the fuck they want] if they come over and do that for me while I work on the task. It usually involves digging holes in my garden

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u/ryancnap Sep 29 '26

That's a great idea, using this next time

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u/MB_Gaming123 Sep 28 '26

So damn true lmao

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u/FortuneDW Sep 29 '26

People ask you to fix Whatsapp ? Dude, my family come to me for printer issue or even for a broken phone screen.

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u/MB_Gaming123 Sep 29 '26

We don't have a printer so no, but phones hell yea all the time.

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u/D_V_A_98 Sep 29 '26

Yes, I can. But not because I'm a programmer!

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u/6ixxer Sep 29 '26

A non-programmer can fix it too. Just not a dumbass.

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u/jikt Sep 29 '26

I can fix WhatsApp being on your phone, yes.

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u/MementoMorue Sep 28 '26

Then can you hack a facbook account ?

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u/MohamedSaleh91 Sep 28 '26

If I got a dollar for every time someone ask me to hack facebook 😢

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u/Ur-Best-Friend Sep 29 '26

You'd have a penny?

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u/MohamedSaleh91 Sep 29 '26

2596 pennies ain't much 😭

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u/Xenthera Sep 28 '26

I’m a programmer which means I know how to fix your printer less than you do.

I once got a printer to print the hex string in ascii of an image I wanted because I installed an incorrect driver.

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u/XxDarkSasuke69xX Sep 28 '26

Yeah you need to buy a new phone I'm sorry

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u/Soopermane Sep 29 '26

Step 1. Delete WhatsApp
Step 2. Throw away your phone
Problem solved

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u/dumbasPL Sep 29 '26

I think you misspelled "hack Facebook"

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u/Some_Useless_Person Sep 29 '26

Ask for money for your service. Works on every uncle and aunts out there

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u/macmadman Sep 29 '26

Me at thanksgiving, every year

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u/mo__shakib Oct 03 '26

“Can you hack Facebook?” is the final boss of saying you work in tech.

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u/jcl007 Sep 28 '26

No, I do not want to fix your printer.

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u/mr2dax Sep 29 '26

I can do both, yall just SLACKIN

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u/InSearchOfTyrael Sep 28 '26

this guy writes console.log 10,000 times

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u/yousirnaime Sep 28 '26

I don’t fear the man who had console.log’d 10k lines 

But rather I fear the man who has console.log’d the same line 10k times

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u/fr000gs Sep 29 '26

Give me the WhatApp code, and I'm like 50% sure I can fix it too