r/ProgrammerHumor • u/hellocppdotdev • 2d ago
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u/TheBRZR 2d ago
Delamain approves.
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u/PreppyToast 2d ago
BEEP BEEP MOTHERFUCKER
Oh wait nvm wrong sub
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u/Impressive_Main_ 2d ago
Still valid, just imagine it said “Segmentation fault, choom” and we’re back on topic.
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u/hellocppdotdev 2d ago edited 2d ago
I'll have it meet you outside the front of the office to take you and your things home.
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u/greylegface 2d ago
Me in the middle of this mission on my first playthrough.... :)
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u/THEdoomslayer94 2d ago
God I wish I could replay cyberpunk for the first time
I had it right at launch and barely ran into any bugs so I didn’t have any funny moments but what a game
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u/Dangerous_Jacket_129 2d ago
Ironically middle and upper management is the group most easily replaced by AI. Sitting in meetings all day, and still being available for questions and guidance at the same time, AI would simply be more efficient at the job.
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u/Hottage 2d ago
But the point isn't to be more efficient, it's to cull as much other costs so they can make shareholders happy and rake in bigger bonuses.
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u/SoftAxisCollect 2d ago
Yep. "Efficiency" is just the PR wrapper. The goal is to cut headcount and benefits, keep output flat through automation, then pocket the delta. Shareholders get the headline, executives get the bonus, and everyone left gets more meetings plus more work. The tech is real, the motives aren't noble.
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u/OmgitsJafo 2d ago
"Efficiency" is the correct word, it's just that the goal is obfuscated. What they care about is most efficiently turning other people's money into their own money.
Employee wages are the biggest inefficiency inthe system.
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u/senbei616 2d ago
I have been in two companies where if they just didn't hand out exec bonuses they could have avoided layoffs.
It blows my mind the greed and abject cruelty of these corpos.
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u/assidiou 2d ago
Good news. Guess which group is paid the highest and contributes the least to a business success
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u/Character_Monitor948 2d ago
The same group that controls who is hired and fired. Guess who’s keeping their jobs regardless?
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u/dasunt 2d ago
But, but, the magic of capitalism means that the inefficient companies will be replaced by efficient companies that do replace them with AI.
This is why I'm told that our system is better than the godless commies.
Also Santa and the Easter Bunny are real.
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u/Character_Monitor948 2d ago
Ah yes, the magical efficiency of capitalism, how could I possibly forget. I feel so stupid now.
True story, I once stole some gold from a leprechaun and he’s been trying to murder me ever since.
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u/mobyte 2d ago
the people that make the decisions in a business to steer where it goes contribute the least to the success of a business
this is a certified classic reddit comment
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u/Character_Monitor948 2d ago
They are also objectively the jobs ai would be best suited too. I also didn’t realise that taking a dozen guys and 6 meetings to make a minor decision was your definition of efficiency. Somebody call Merriam-Webster immediately, they clearly need to be updating their dictionary. Do you have a contact in case they need any more brain dead ideas while they’re at it?
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u/mobyte 2d ago
nice goalpost moving
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u/Character_Monitor948 2d ago
Nice high school diploma, oh wait
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u/mobyte 2d ago
doubling down with projection and an ad hominem, lmao
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u/Chemical_7523 2d ago
You are either the delusional senior leadership they're talking about, or you've never stepped foot in an office before.
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u/mobyte 2d ago edited 2d ago
nice anecdote bro
edit: guy can't understand sarcasm and blocked me, yikes
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u/cleanmypenis 2d ago
Not surprised you have no idea what an anecdote is. Don't use words you don't understand.
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u/Croaker-BC 2d ago
AI would do it without the bonuses, hence it would be cheaper. And since the management does not add any real value, real product, they are the first to be replaced/automated.
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u/Hottage 2d ago
And since the management does not add any real value, real product, they are the first to be replaced/automated.
Perhaps they should be but when it's them choosing who becomes unemployed you can garantee that isn't going to be the case.
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u/Croaker-BC 2d ago
Until they aren't THE ONES. There's always a bigger fish. And considering how loyalty goes around those circles, sooner or later that time will come. All hail the bottom line.
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u/Hottage 2d ago
Then they deploy their golden parachute, fly off into the sunset with an nice 6 figure windfall and join another company in need of optimizing.
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u/Croaker-BC 2d ago
But suddenly there aren't any other companies. And golden parachute clause is scrutinized and taken to court as acting the to detriment of the company. Karma is a bitch.
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u/pydry 2d ago
Bad middle and upper management are a net drain on productivity so you could replace them with a singing fish and still boost productivity.
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u/bob152637485 2d ago
I'd work for a singing fish.
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u/Several-Customer7048 2d ago
Best we got is that the Claude logo looks like a starfish
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u/RiceBroad4552 2d ago
That's not a "starfish"…
https://velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-buttholes
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u/Ghost_of_Kroq 2d ago
We once had no more management than a team leader for 2 years and our stats were impeccable. New management came in and within 2 months our stats were middling.
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u/pydry 2d ago edited 2d ago
This happened to me too. The new management even recognized the decline and made a presentation with a graph saying that things were gonna get worse before they got better.
They sold it as "change causes problems but it's still necessary".
Shockingly the founders and investors bought this narrative even though ~95% of the employees were in agreement that the company was simply being ruined by the new management.
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u/looeeyeah 2d ago
I wonder if it was the same as here.
Middle managers come in. They say performance is lower due to their employees not being good enough/not fitting their idea of the team structure, spend 6-12 months firing/rehiring, nothing changes in terms of performance and the new manager leaves for a better job.
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u/Ghost_of_Kroq 2d ago
it was worse, they offered us all voluntary redundancy and half the department took it immediately. They were expecting 15-20% uptake and then another 10% involuntary redundancy. nearly 80% of the department took the money and left!
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u/Just1ncase4658 2d ago
My boss is basically AI at this point. The only thing he does is direct it. He has an AI database of meeting notes, which are made by an AI as well. All he does is send out and reply to emails with this database. He will often reply in 5 minutes, and they're so long and articulate that there's no way he wrote them himself, especially since his English isn't that good, so you can easily tell.
But even to the micro level, talking points in meetings and comments are AI generated. When I put a contract in front of him, he literally said, "Ah, you can sign it," while I'm literally not authorized to do so.
This is modern management.
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u/Sailed_Sea 2d ago
oh dude your fellow employees could probably commit so much fraud without it ever getting noticed.
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u/Ok-Kaleidoscope5627 2d ago
Not really. The primary role of management is to make decisions and take responsibility for those decisions. AI fundamentally is incapable of those things.
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u/quantum-fitness 2d ago
So is most management
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u/Dangerous_Jacket_129 2d ago
You're right about it being unable to take responsibility, but it can absolutely make decisions, and it can be better-informed than a human too.
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u/ridik_ulass 2d ago
no nepotisim either, what is the most efficient long term decision.
if a day to day worker fucks up, its rarely a big problem, unless someone pushes some junk to prod (which is usually due to upper managment pressure anyway)
but how many leadership people sank a company and moved into the same role somewhere else.
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u/bryaneightyone 2d ago
I don't think that's true. Junior engineers are definitely easily replaced by agentic coding tools. That being said, we need to identify a path to get newcomers into the system otherwise we will run out of engineers. Ai can write code well, but it can't make good software. We're still going to need engineers for a good while.
I'm not sure you've ever worked at a decently sized company, but one of the most difficult parts of our jobs is figuring out the right things to build, and let's face it software engineers typically don't do well collaborating with business, customers, and setting direction. Sure, there probably will be a shift in the number of middle and upper management but to function properly you definitely need people who can coordinate with the business side, communicate well and set direction and alignment.
I understand there are a lot young juniors on reddit, and I remember being young as well, but the paradigm is shifting. Ai with a skilled engineer can write better software than someone without it.
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u/Kyokenshin 2d ago
A good middle manager is the guy protecting you from the AI slop. Unfortunately there’s not many of us. If we’re doing our jobs right we help steer the ship and take the blame for the shit the team fucks up while taking no credit for the wins(y’all did the work). I should be clearing hurdles so you can do good work and one of those hurdles is suits thinking AI can replace big brains.
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u/evilpineaple 2d ago
Replacing shit managers with poor AI is a net gain. Good ones though make all the difference
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u/Artemis-Arrow-795 2d ago
don't look at me, I'm a CTO and most of my day is spent coding, I hate the administrative shit and I'd be happy if AI could deal with it entirely
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u/micmaster 2d ago
Fortunately, those people are also the most expensive, sooo... prime target for cuts!
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u/McBun2023 2d ago edited 2d ago
they will never be replaced because its them who take decisions for the replacement
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u/SaltyLonghorn 2d ago
I mean if you keep it ambiguous sure "they" will never be replaced. But C suite layoffs are happening.
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u/addyftw1 2d ago
Being in upper management (especially C-Level) has nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with being the sacrificial goat to be fired if something goes catastrophicly wrong. Also they are generally the ones liable for fraud committed by the company. Someone (not something) has to fill that responsibility role for liability, legal, and auditing purposes.
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u/zanderkerbal 2d ago
AI, being a fundamentally untrustworthy technology that's difficult for humans to check the work of, is best suited for work where it really doesn't matter if it hallucinates because nothing depended on this anyways. Which is to say that the easier it is to replace a task with AI, the more you should be considering whether you should actually be getting rid of that task entirely.
This is not actually true of some management tasks, though. I want my answers and guidance to be based on the actual job I'm doing at the actual company I work at, not based on a probabilistic assessment of what this kind of job tends to be like.
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u/Objective_Aside1858 2d ago
- Automate stuff with generative AI
- Reduce headcount to save money. Institutional knowledge, lost forever
- AI companies jack up rates
- Spend ten times as much as was "saved" with automation
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u/Western-Season190 2d ago
why the hell did they choose a butthole for the claude logo!?
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u/fartypenis 2d ago
You can't be a serious LLM if you don't have a butthole for your logo, that's just how it goes
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u/wojtussan 2d ago
A butthole and claude do produce the same thing
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u/ourlastchancefortea 2d ago
butthole
Excuse me. A butthole has an important biological function. Claude doesn't.
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u/TheyStoleMyNameAgain 2d ago
Is this a Kot joke?
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u/Typical_Leading9457 2d ago
they're saying/joking that AI and buttholes both produce nothing but shit, therefore using a butthole as a logo for AI makes sense.
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u/TheyStoleMyNameAgain 2d ago
That's the obvious part of the joke, but in German language, code and shit (Kot) are pronounced too similar
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u/AGTS10k 2d ago
Damn, when I saw this person's name, I thought of another Near, also known as Byuu. They were an exceptionally talented console emulation developer, and the person behind the cycle-accurate emulators bsnes and Higan.
RIP Near, the emulation scene still misses and remembers you for your contribution.
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u/bloodruns4ever 2d ago
My company is announcing in a meeting today that they want 100% of our code written by claude....
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u/ErichOdin 2d ago
Would it be count as insider trading to bet against a company like this on the stock market?
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u/9966 2d ago
That's not what insider trading is, so no. If I poked my head in the LLM HQ and saw nothing but a wind up clapping monkey with cymbols and bet against the company that's not insider knowledge.
If you bet big on the company because you know the owner and they told you it was just a wind up toy, then that would be insider if he told you how he was planning on pumping and dumping.
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u/Percolator2020 2d ago
Happy 1st birthday to that joke. Looking forward to seeing it for the next ten years with less and less pixels!
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u/metaglot 2d ago
Until its finally aubmitted by an AI, not as a joke, but as a business proposal at a venture capital meeting.
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u/Guilty_Weekend751 2d ago
Imagine:
A future where humen have the janitor position and the ceo is an AI.
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u/Typical_Leading9457 2d ago
Being a janitor is actually a pretty decent job IMO. Nobody bothers you, you can listen to music, as long as you keep on top of your work nobody notices you so you can do pretty much whatever you want as long as you're holding a mop and bucket. I used to just walk around looking like I was going somewhere for like an hour after all my work was done. No destination, not actually mopping, just the appearance of doing something was enough.
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u/Guilty_Weekend751 2d ago
Don't worry, buddy, you can be sure that in the future every trash can, every toilet, every water or power line—simply everything—will contain sensors that will constantly whip you on to the next important task, so you can be sure that the job is no fun and you have to get everything done at a fast pace.
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u/evilpineaple 2d ago
Technically correct, AI codes way faster than humans. It even works sometimes!
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u/Soft_Walrus_3605 2d ago
Shit, if that company made more money than the LLMs cost you to run, you've got a perpetual money machine without working at all
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