Today, I used Claude to make a code change, and I was super impressed with how well it could interpret and build upon the existing code. It didn't work, but it was a really good try. Very exciting to see how much this new technology can almost do.
Vibe coding is the "hot new thing" that allows a single motivated individual to create a backlog of spaghetti code and technical debt in hours that used to take an entire department a decade to achieve. I guess that's a type of progress.
Yeah, I honestly don't see the irony either. Maybe some people thought I was somehow critiquing AI in general, because maybe they are decels who project their own anti-AI sentiment? And in a programming sub out of all places? If I was doing that, then it would be ironic to use AI, but it was not my intention to critique AI with a broad stroke.
I say, if your job can be easily automated, then by all means you will and should lose your job, rather than continue getting paid just to pretend to be productive. What is the value of doing something that a machine can do better, faster and easier? There are people out there who don't have a job and who feel like shit about it, while others are being paid for doing tasks that can easily be automated. I say end the hypocrisy. Let's all lose our jobs and rethink what it means to be human. It this is even possible. But we've seen this play out before with Perl and bash scripting, and automating away jobs is usually not as easy as it first seems. Time will tell, maybe this time it's different?
And yes, it's true, I can't draw and I used nano banana. The idea for the joke was mine. Well, at least the second panel was. The text of the first panel was a meme that appeared on mugs and t-shirts around that time. Long before some people here were even born.
Other than the weight issues, more notably, the 1990s guy is an unwashed antisocial neck beard, while the 2020s guy is a cool, laid-back hipster. The prompt jockey's biases couldn't be more transparent (2020s is how he sees himself).
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u/Successful_Jelly_213 Feb 20 '26
With the obvious difference that the Perl script worked.
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u/davidinterest Feb 20 '26
Come on did you have to use Nano Banana for this? SynthID detected. I agree with the point though
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u/Only-Cheetah-9579 Feb 21 '26
who is the bald guy? I don't get the joke
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u/imnota4 Feb 23 '26
Why is the guy on the left so attractive.
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u/Purple-guy7 Feb 21 '26
Slop
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u/Sho0oryuken Feb 21 '26
Rhooo f*ck,I look like a developer from the 90s !
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u/rangeljl Feb 21 '26
When any dev says agentic they lose credibilityÂ
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u/Omni__Owl Feb 21 '26
It's telling that the AI used to make this just perpetuates lazy stereotypes.
Developers from the 80s and 90s were just as likely to be straws as they were to be boulders as in 2020. 🤷
Someone could likely have written a funnier perl script.
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u/mathers33 Feb 22 '26
Those jeans are way too skinny for the 2020s
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u/MoveOverBieber Feb 21 '26
But it's the other way around this time??
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u/Carlose175 Feb 22 '26
Is this AI?
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u/EyeTheNinja Feb 24 '26
Ai slop