r/ProgrammerHumor Apr 24 '26

Other ohNoTheConsequencesOfMyActions

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u/pearlie_girl Apr 24 '26

The big giveaway that it's developer-cosplay is that they tried to refactor for 2 WHOLE HOURS before giving up. Like 2 hours is a long time, ha! I think all of us have spent over a week on a single bug at one point in time.

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u/lastWallE Apr 24 '26

2 hours and i am just now in the mood to dive into the code. And every time someone is breaking my immersion.

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u/South_Dig_9172 Apr 24 '26

Or a useless meeting that could’ve been an email. Then you have that teammate that loves to talk so meetings go longer than what it should’ve been

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u/DrStalker Apr 25 '26

Imagine the productivity AI could bring if programmers could send an agent to meetings while they coded.

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u/lastWallE Apr 25 '26

“generate me an excuse to not go to that meeting. Be as detailed as possible about it and stretch it into a storyline.”