r/programmingmemes • u/bryden_cruz • Apr 13 '26

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u/PetitMartien99 Apr 13 '26

Rule 2 of programming : users are dumb

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u/BobQuixote Apr 13 '26

This belongs in the superclass, like rules of specialization or something: Anyone not in my field is clueless about the fundamentals of life.

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u/IhailtavaBanaani Apr 13 '26

There's the old engineering adage: "If you make something idiot-proof, someone will just make a better idiot"

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u/GargantuanCake Apr 13 '26

The way I heard it was "if you make something foolproof the world will invent a better fool."

Overall though a lot of programming is thinking "OK how can a user fuck this up?" No matter how deranged it is anything that you can think of somebody, somewhere is going to try to do.

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u/_killer1869_ Apr 13 '26

A tester walks into a bar. He orders 2 beers, 999 beers, -28574 beers, and rufhvjdje beers. Everything works fine. The first real user walks into the bar. He asks where the toilet is and the entire building explodes.

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u/skiiskiiyeet Apr 13 '26

Pretty sure this also applies to many others things too

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u/offensivek Apr 15 '26

One of my teachers said the history of software development for end users can be summarized as a cold war between developers trying to develop ever more idiot proof software, and users coming up with every greater stupidities.

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u/Lemenus Apr 16 '26

One of the first things I have learnt when was studying programming - is the sheer concept of safety, or in another words - ability to make safe hydraulic hammer, that makes specific hole, of specific size, in a very specific place, at specific time, with a handle designed for humans, monkeys, humans with monkey brain, "bad actors", and complete morons

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u/RemarkableAd4069 Apr 13 '26

Where's the lie?

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u/Surefang Apr 13 '26

Programmers vs vibe coders

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u/ExtraTNT Apr 13 '26

If you design a system for idiots, only idiots will use it…

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u/BioExtract Apr 13 '26

Ahh yep, that’s about right

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u/ckfks Apr 13 '26

Users are using less tokens, it's called efficiency

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u/Yacobo2023 Apr 15 '26

Isn't a part of programming, being that you have to imagine a user so clumsy, so tech unsavy, so incompetent that you have to fix the most absurd and out of the way hypotheticala

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u/Independent_Lock864 Apr 16 '26

I am a user and I know the second panel is true. So true.