Programmer Humor

(let me preach a little, I have to listen to my boss gushing about AI every meeting)

Compare AI tools: now vs 3 years ago. All those 2022 "Prompt engineer" courses are totally useless in 2025.

Extrapolate into the future and realize, that you're not losing anything valuable by not learning AI tools today. The whole point of them is they don't require any proficiency. It "just works".

Instead focus on what makes you a good developer: understanding how things work, which solution is good for what problem, centering your divs.

Remember when "The Cloud" was going to put everyone in IT out of a job?

As an old fart you can’t imagine how often I heard or read that.

No one can predict the future. One way or the other.

The best way to not be let behind is to be flexible about whatever may come.

What the fuck is Silverlight

This technology solves every development problem we have had. I can teach you how with my $5000 course.

Yes, I would like to book the $5000 Silverlight course, please.

I still think PWAs are a good idea instead of needing to download an app on your phone for every website. Like, for example, PWAs can easilly replace most banking apps, which are already just PWAs with added tracking.

glorified autocomplete

I'm skeptical of author's credibility and vision of the future, if he has not even reached blink tag technology in his progress.

it's funny, but also holy moly do I not trust a "sign in with github" button

What a glorious site. I wish every webpage looked something like this

Good thing I hate web development

Thanks for summing it up so succinctly. As an aging dev, I've seen quite a lot of tech come and go. I wish more people interested in technology would spend more time learning the basics and the history of things.

Once both major world militaries and hobbists are using it, it's jover. You can't close Pandora's Box. Whatever you want to call the current versions of "AI", it's only going to get better. Short of major world catastrophes, I expect it to drive not only technological advances but also energy/efficiency advances as well. The big internet conglomerates are already integrating it into search, and I fully expect within the next 5 years to have search transformed into an assistant-like chatbot (or something thereof).

I think it's shortsighted not to see the potential of accumulating society's knowledge and being able to present that to people in an understandable way.

I don't expect it to happen overnight. I'm not expecting iRobot or Android levels of consciousness any time soon, but the world is progressing toward the automation of many things - driven by Capital(ism) - which is powerful in itself.

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If you're not using Notepad, I don't even know what to tell you.

It pains me so much when I see my colleagues pay OpenAI to do programming assignments.. they see it is faster to ask gpt, than learn it properly. Sadly, I can say nothing to them, or I would risk worsening relations with them.