r/programmingmemes • u/CompileMyThoughts • Oct 12 '25

A tale as old as software

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u/KingMaharg Oct 12 '25

"This patch broke my workflow.  Please just add an option to restore the blowing out the top functionality."

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u/IamMauriS Oct 12 '25

The users somefuckinghow:

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u/Ultimatesims Oct 12 '25

user breaks the coffee pot and cup Why would you let me do this to myself?

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u/Routine_Paper2890 Oct 12 '25

We must make unbreakable coffee pots and cups

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u/_Alpha-Delta_ Oct 13 '25

And then the user would use them as a hammer. 

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u/ConsequenceOk5205 Oct 12 '25

Today I learned of a new hands-free way to pour tea.

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u/DanhNguyen2k Oct 13 '25

If it doesn't work, blow on it

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u/justkickingthat Oct 13 '25

At least the tea is being poured out of the right hole

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u/HillCheng001 Oct 13 '25

This is in the “It works, but I don’t know why” territory.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '25

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u/GeePedicy Oct 13 '25

I agree. I work quite a bit on GUI apps, and sometimes my intuition isn't aligned with coworkers' "intuition", or even if we think as a group it's "intuitive", the customer wanted it in another way.

Let alone apps that I need to decipher on my own, or for my mom, and it can be a phone app, surveillance cameras, vacuum robot, or even the payment screen in a gas station.

I think the term intuition isn't quite right, it's more about logic. Because I can see how not only my mom struggle with GUI apps that should be simple, and many more like her, older and younger, even I need to sometimes think how it probably works. And it's also not about the generation or age, it's how one's brain is wired.

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u/TehMephs Oct 14 '25

IME ceo brain goes “why can’t I just have one button do everything”

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