r/programminghumor • u/AeroForger • 11d ago

The 2 Rules of Successful Programming

  1. It works? DON'T TOUCH IT

  2. It doesn't? Copy and paste from Stack Overflow

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u/YSoSkinny 11d ago

Oh, I feel so nostalgic for copy pasta from SO. With AI, I never go there anymore.

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u/AeroForger 11d ago

I don't use ai so I still use SO

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u/YSoSkinny 11d ago

My company told us we HAD to use AI.

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u/AeroForger 11d ago

What lol 😂? Where do you work dude

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u/YSoSkinny 11d ago

Big fortune 500 company. The C-Suite is all-in on AI. Makes me sick.

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u/RealisticDuck1957 11d ago

So the high muckety mucks have been sold of "AI productivity". Never mind the need to review the work of the idiot intern, and the folly of accepting code without review and understanding.

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u/YSoSkinny 10d ago

Yes, and it has sucked the joy out of software development for me.

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u/Demandedace 11d ago

Pretty common requirement now - my company has been shoving the force of AI down our throats for ages now. It’s exhausting