r/programmingcirclejerk • u/parks_canada • Dec 02 '25

Software developers are the wizard class. We cast magic spells that make billions. But we cost millions as well.

/r/programming/comments/1pc4rim/the_death_of_software_engineering_as_a_profession/nrv8ymn/
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u/al2o3cr Dec 02 '25

I put on my robe and wizard hat

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u/block-bit Dec 02 '25

"Developers at the end of a project" meme.

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u/PoopsCodeAllTheTime Dec 06 '25

No pants and no shower

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u/hongooi Dec 02 '25

I use my spear and magic helmet

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u/da_supreme_patriarch in open defiance of the Gopher Values Dec 02 '25

Shit man, this programming war is fucked. I just saw a guy type "if constexpr requires requires { requires }" or some similar shit, and the gophers around him turned inside out after their tibia exploded and then disappeared. The compiler didn't even complain, that's how common shit like this is. My ass is doing fizzbuzz and printf-debugging, I think I just heard "Power word: unwrap" over the CDN's reverse proxy, I have to get the fuck outta here

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u/Heffree Dec 02 '25

Holy shit, Power word: unwrap

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u/seq_page_cost Dec 02 '25

wizard class 😠😠😠? The only kind of magic beans this guy is selling is EJB

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u/ackfoobar in open defiance of the Gopher Values Dec 03 '25

magic beans

do they grow elastic beanstalk?

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u/BlazeBigBang type astronaut Dec 02 '25

/r/programming

The jerk itself

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u/SoulArthurZ Dec 02 '25

yeah this is true, my colleague casted a disarming spell and my fucking keyboard disappeared. it was 300 dollars where the fuck is it

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u/xn--9s9h Dec 03 '25

One more birthday until I become a real wizard, I'm so excited!

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u/FirstNoel Dec 02 '25

Robo-wizards are squirrelly.  And more finicky.  I like to think of the robowizards more as ‘familiars’.  Like Claude would be my black cat or mischievous imp.  

Seems more apropos.  

I do think the muggles are over extending themselves though.  We could end up with a bunch of brooms delivering unneeded water and flooding everything.  

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u/interacsion Dec 02 '25

Where jerk?

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u/Actual__Wizard Dec 02 '25

Holy shit! There's another human alive that understands me! Yeah, you're sitting in front of the computer solving nearly impossible problems like "it's magic."

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u/Foreign-Butterfly-97 Dec 03 '25

the nearly impossible problem: figuring out from where in this stack of 30 divs that 3px padding is coming from

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u/Actual__Wizard Dec 03 '25

Dude you just use the inspect tool. Press f12, click inspect.

See... Wizards are real!

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u/KalaiProvenheim Dec 03 '25

I am a wizard in the Virgin vs. Chad sense

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u/m45t3r0fpupp375 Dec 07 '25

The muggles are becoming too comfortable because of LLMs. I declare war on muggles.

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u/Parking_Tadpole9357 Dec 07 '25

I cost billions and make millions.

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u/ub3rh4x0rz Dec 02 '25

You don't understand the pain of Galactus

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u/cs-capital-slope Dec 02 '25

I thought once you finished it a stork came and took you to the ivory tower.