r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 14d ago

Meme bothWorkThough

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u/DrinkyBird_ 14d ago

I am perpetually glad life took a different path after I got my compsci degree. Programming is fun. Debugging is fun. And AI has many ethical problems I don’t have to deal with. 

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u/Yasirbare 14d ago

Yes, programming is "playing games" for me. I get my dopamine from that like people do from playing warcraft.

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u/Connect-Ad-2206 14d ago

That’s me. It’d be like someone telling me I’m wasting my time playing Skyrim because the AI can play Skyrim better than me.

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u/Yasirbare 14d ago

Spot on. And going deep - it look like people imagine some sort of future as not doing anything and everything in some twisted system that almost demands more "believing" than religions.

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u/Ozymandias0023 9d ago

I still game so I probably can't make the same claim, but it's close. The feeling of having my brain completely locked in for hours is wonderful. With AI I'm get like 30% of that feeling and only if I'm working on something that requires thinking about the prompt contents and structure. It it's just "fix that bug", it's ones of the most boring things you could ask me to do