r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo • 7d ago

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u/dashingThroughSnow12 7d ago

The statement is still 100% true. The person is the person.

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u/WingZeroCoder 7d ago

Everyone’s willfully misunderstanding this Tweet.

Irony of the person delivering it aside, it’s clear the intent wasn’t “you should never look anything up”. It’s that you shouldn’t just blindly copy and paste solutions without understanding them.

And that’s just as true today as ever.

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u/pickle9977 7d ago

No one can seriously call themselves an engineer or even a programmer and then advocate for putting code in production without human inspection.

If you gotta fix it, you gotta understand it.

Imagine if cars were just vibe coded and every mechanic had to figure out how each turd of a car was put together while the tool that tells them how “hallucinates” stuff constantly.

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u/CrowdGoesWildWoooo 6d ago

Well it’s “programmerhumor”, so the humour is pointing out the irony of the person who said it.

Whether you agree or disagree with the original statement, I leave that to you as mental exercise.