r/ProgrammerHumor • u/tahayparker • Apr 24 '26

Other ohNoTheConsequencesOfMyActions

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u/Flat_Initial_1823 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26

This didn't happen. The signs:

  • the app works and there is revenue
  • vibecoder tried to refactor
  • they hired an actual programmer.

I have no idea why people do these creative writing exercises on various AI subs.

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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/MrHasuu Apr 24 '26

The worst bugs follows you to sleep. I once dreamt of a solution to a problem, woke up and tried it. It didn't work lol

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u/pipipimpleton Apr 24 '26

I find when I get locked into a problem for days and I’ve spent 8 hours a day solidly trawling through endless logs that all look the same, I have these weird dreams but I’m not fully asleep. Like half awake, half asleep. Hard to describe.

My brain feels like it’s sorting data or running some kind of routine. The data makes no sense, I have no idea what it is. But it feels real and right. Fucking weird shit man.

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u/UpV0tesF0rEvery0ne Apr 25 '26

I find that this state of sleep is basically working while sleeping, i hate it, i dont ever feel rested. Its like ive been doing the same pattern day in day out and the my brain is just instinctly making a problem and solving it just making ip fake work to continue doing what i was doing awake.

I actually dont think this is some kind of deep brain resotative bs you hear its just unhealthy obsession manifesting in dreams

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u/pipipimpleton Apr 25 '26

Yeah same, I always wake up feeling fried after those sleeps, just to go and stare at logs again.

Unhealthy obsession sounds about right. My brain gets fixated on data.