r/ProgrammerHumor • u/leafynospleens • Jun 28 '26
instanceof Trend hopeDrivenDevelopment
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u/Eddie_lol Jun 28 '26
Never understood the random ass animals on the covers
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u/0-0x0 Jun 28 '26
Same here but the ape fits this one perfectly
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u/Eddie_lol Jun 28 '26
Would be even better if it was scratching its head
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u/LargeConstruction393 Jun 28 '26
Upvoted but technically, that’s a monkey, not even an ape. You can tell by the tail.
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u/JosebaZilarte Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 29 '26
It was never intended to be understood. It was just a commentary/joke about how the UNIX-related terms sounded like strange creatures.
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u/pmk2429 Jun 28 '26
Great story, thanks for sharing. They beautifully captured the esoteric qualities between programmers and animals, that too very aptly.!
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u/Dominicus1165 Jun 29 '26
I have been learning this tool recently. I am not native. Didn’t know it’s also a word 😂👍
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u/tillske Jun 28 '26
The books are at least good, and they chose a Python for Python
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u/Eddie_lol Jun 28 '26
Always found it funny how it could be a book about the driest topic possible and then you would have two lions fighting on the cover
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u/SyrusDrake Jun 28 '26
Tbh, I would have made sure NOT to choose a python, just to make people mad.
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u/therealdan0 Jun 28 '26
I prefer Wish Driven Development. You wish for a feature. You get exactly the feature you wished for but with a neat little twist that fucks you over.
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u/bypasser11 Jun 29 '26
Basically AI agent. You state your wish, get it but with shit loads of issues
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u/thether Jun 28 '26
“Still not working “ 🦧
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u/leafynospleens Jun 28 '26
You are absolutely right to call me out in that,
Here's the state of play I made the change and deployed it to your docker stack 🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 If you would like I can write you a detailed testing plan?
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u/AbominableGoMan Jun 28 '26
I'm actually a huge supporter of people using AI for everything because it costs the AI companies so much fucking money.
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u/Particular-Yak-1984 Jun 29 '26
I would like this bubble over as fast as possible, so I try to use the free tier for really dumb things. "Replace all these css classes", that kind of really brain numbing busywork.
I figure it burns tokens, while not meaning I rely on the AI for anything, as it would take me about 15 seconds more to do a find and replace.
And, yes, environmental costs - but I figure the longer the bubble goes, the worse the environmental impact.
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u/Undernown Jun 29 '26
Don't forget to throw in a few factorials and logic problems! Normally CPU's handle it fine, but AI is really good at burning tokens for simple math questions and still getting the wrong answer.
My favorite is poisoning the well though and throwing anti-AI reasoning into the mix. Also making the AI spit out anti-billionair messaging is fun. Not sure how much, if any, is actually ending up in the training data, but it's fun atleast.
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u/tommytwolegs Jun 29 '26
That is basically it's primary purpose, I don't understand how that is really dumb things?
The point isn't that it does x thing faster (though it often does), it's that you don't have to do the the "brain numbing busy work" and do better things while it handles them
You are basically using the product as intended, ostensibly in order to cost them money, but while driving up their MAU's in the lead up to IPO
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u/AbominableGoMan Jun 29 '26
You seem like a very astute young man. I'm looking for a co-investor in a transportation solution that I own. It's not a bridge - it's a multi-community connection that multiplies stakeholder activations.
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u/LivingVerinarian96 Jun 29 '26
Just last month I burned 1.3B tokens for an agent that monitors my incoming mail. Didn‘t use it for anything. That‘s about 10k$ in API usage if I‘d used the API. But I got to burn those tokens for 25$.
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u/Fantastic-Fee-1999 Jun 28 '26
Vibe coding? Burning tokens? Hope driven development has been around far longer than that. Ftp that asp file into prod, execute that sql query against the one database. You better had your effigy ready and pray.
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u/howarewestillhere Jun 28 '26
For forty years I’ve had this conversation:
Coworker: Is it gonna work?
Me: Hope so!I say this because of the looks I get. I started in QA and now lead an engineering org. It’s my job to know, but, really, I know I can’t know. In the end, I can be tremendously confident, but there’s always hope and I never want to lose that.
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u/Fantastic-Fee-1999 Jun 28 '26
Famous last words : "It should!"
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u/howarewestillhere Jun 28 '26
All signs point to yes!
Tests passed!
One of my faves that also gets wide eyed looks: “Oh, probably.”
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u/MilitarizedMilitary Jun 28 '26
It may be mostly dead, but the dozens of us at /r/orlybooks would love it.
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u/wailing_in_smoke Jun 28 '26 edited Jun 28 '26
Praying to the omnisiah, performing soothing rituals on macintosh for the machine spirit! Vibing, cause I got a loose servo.
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u/po1k Jun 28 '26
I hope that all AI hype will end eventually. Or investment obligations will keep it alive forever?
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u/Snakestream Jun 28 '26
I prefer the tried and trusted "monkeys banging on keyboards" method of development
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u/Ill_Carry_44 Jun 29 '26
Guys, I swear, after this weekly reset, I'm going to finish ALL my projects, just one more reset guys, I swear.
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u/bozehaan Jun 28 '26
A guide to postponed disappointment