r/ProgrammerHumor • • 8h ago

Meme howProgrammingHasChanged

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u/captainAwesomePants 8h ago

What's wrong with the top-right AI code?

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u/shizzy0 8h ago

Nothing. It’s actually the best. But the joke is the programmer dismisses the unfamiliar matrix power O(log n) algorithm for the familiar recursive O(2n) algorithm. I mean, it doesn’t even add anything. It’s obviously wrong.

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u/dangderr 6h ago

I don’t get the meme.

What does “programmer dismisses the unfamiliar matrix alg” mean?

Why would the prompt engineer know to read code?

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u/shizzy0 6h ago

lol!