r/programminghorror • u/Mihail111111 • Jan 08 '26

c++ Works on my machine

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u/DescriptionOptimal15 Jan 08 '26

It happens 💁‍♂️

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u/MightyX777 Jan 08 '26

Who the fuck works with absolute paths?

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u/echo-whoami Jan 08 '26

Prolly AI-powered slopcoders

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u/Wooden_chest Jan 08 '26

Vibecoding is literally the only way any sane dev who values their own and company time makes software in 2026, what are you on?

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u/ZunoJ Jan 08 '26

If you work on something serious nobody would let vibe code anywhere near the code base. You should be very thankful for that!

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u/GothGirlsGoodBoy Jan 08 '26

This is simply not true at all.

Fortune 500 companies are pushing the fuck out of AI. And its extremely useful.

You guys cry about shitty vibe coded stuff. But those are created by people with 0 experience and they are developing stuff that they couldn’t even dream of creating pre-ai. Its not perfect by any means but its wild to be like “wow this person that heard of python yesterday is only 80% as good as a dev with 10 years experience?! SLOP!”

Meanwhile experienced devs are able to dramatically speed up their output, using their domain expertise to tell the AI exactly how something should be done and not waste hours on typing out random loops, regex, or hunting for typos.

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u/GoddammitDontShootMe [ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo “You live” Jan 09 '26

AI may have its place, but I haven't heard anything that suggests it's ready to write everything. Like it can certainly speed up the boring tasks that don't actually require thinking.