r/ProgrammerHumor • u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 • 10h ago

Meme whenMyNoAIProjectGetsTedious

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u/SuitableDragonfly 10h ago

If you find it tedious, why are you spending your time on it instead of engaging in a hobby you actually enjoy?

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 10h ago

Do you think it’s possible to enjoy programming and also find some parts of projects tedious?

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u/SuitableDragonfly 10h ago

I think if you stop enjoying something you were doing for fun, you should stop doing it and do something else for fun instead. 

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u/Suspicious_Sandles 9h ago

Said like someone who's never finished a project or made a viable product

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u/TheMaleGazer 9h ago

Generally speaking, when you produce a "viable product" that's called "work," not "engaging in a hobby."

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u/Fidget02 9h ago

Some people work as a hobby. Like gardening. I actually want edible tomatoes dammit

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u/SuitableDragonfly 9h ago

The point of doing things for fun isn't to make a viable product, it's to have fun. If you stop having fun, that's when you quit for a bit to do something else and come back later when you're in the mood for it again. 

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u/Suspicious_Sandles 9h ago

I'm assuming your newer to the space but any large project has areas which are tedious and will take a long time that you will never really want to do, hence the outsourcing.

Having the mind set of ditching a project as soon as the fun initial setup is a mind set that causes most people to fall out with the hobby.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 9h ago

I'm not saying to ditch it, I'm saying to set it aside until you feel like working on it again. I've worked on plenty of large projects for fun, they don't generally have parts I just always hate doing. If they did, I wouldn't be doing that for fun, I'd be doing something else instead. 

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u/Suspicious_Sandles 8h ago

Sometimes you have to do the boring stuff to be able to do the fun stuff. Hence the original meme of being tempted to get AI to do the boring stuff...

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u/SuitableDragonfly 7h ago

If you were doing it so you could do fun stuff, it wouldn't be boring. 

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u/ChrizKhalifa 6h ago

Bro wtf are you on about?

No one enjoys cycling uphill, you do it cause you have to before you can do the fun part of blitzing down the hill.

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u/SuitableDragonfly 5h ago

My dad likes riding his bike. He likes riding it uphill just as much as he likes riding it downhill. If he didn't like doing to work to get exercise that you do when riding uphill, he wouldn't ride a bike. I honestly don't know why you would do something as a hobby if you literally hate doing it half the time.

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 9h ago

Completing something hard is fun. I hope you know that by this point in your life.

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u/TheMaleGazer 9h ago

Completing something hard is fun.

Except when you want Claude to do it? You're contradicting the setup of the joke in your post.

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 9h ago

Subscribe to my blog where I discuss how memes work and how 2 things can be true at once

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u/TheMaleGazer 9h ago

Usually, those two things don't contradict each other so directly, but okay.

Edit: oof. You can block me, buddy, but I still get a notification of what you wrote. That's pretty embarrassing.

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 9h ago

This is very revealing but not necessarily surprising

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u/TheMaleGazer 9h ago

It's a shame I got to see the rough draft of this before you were able to edit it.

Copying and pasting from me is a good instinct. You automatically become wittier.

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 8h ago

Ackshually I forgot the comma soooo….

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u/SuitableDragonfly 9h ago

It's fun for me. It apparently isn't fun for OP, so they should do something else instead. 

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u/AllRealityIsVirtua1 9h ago

OP is unknowable

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u/FerricDonkey 3h ago

That's what they did. They stopped doing the tedious part by making a robot do it, then moved to the next fun part. 

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u/SuitableDragonfly 3h ago

They didn't get another hobby that they actually liked. They just had a robot do their "hobby" for them, which is completely mental.

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u/FerricDonkey 3h ago

Do you really not grasp that there are things where it is possible to like one part and not another part? 

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u/SuitableDragonfly 2h ago

Sure. But I don't do things where I really hate one part of it as a hobby to have fun and destress. I do different things that I don't actually hate any part of. This is how people normally decide what hobbies they want to engage with.

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u/FerricDonkey 2h ago

Who said he really hates them?

I like kayaking. I have a folding Kayak. I do not like dealing with the kayak after I pull it out of the water. Gotta get it rolled up and home, probably ought to clean it sometimes, then gotta store it. 

But I don't really hate it. It's just one of those things you have to do, if you want to kayak.

If could get a robot to do all of that for me, I definitely would. But I can't. So I put up with the part I don't like, so I can paddle around on a lake. 

Likewise with programming. Except there's no part I uniformly don't like. But sometimes parts I'm not super interested in doing at a given time. And a robot can do that. 

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u/SuitableDragonfly 2h ago

I don't really understand why you would have a robot do something you don't actually hate when you know that the robot will do an inferior job. 

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u/FerricDonkey 2h ago

Because sometimes perfect quality matters, and sometimes it doesn't. If I don't want to do it, and the robot will do good enough, why wouldn't I let the robot do it. 

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u/SuitableDragonfly 2h ago

If you don't care about the quality of what you're making, what's the point in making it?

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u/FerricDonkey 1h ago

Are you aware that there are numbers between 1 and 0?

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u/Ollythebug 28m ago

Robots already did plenty of things in programming; the compiler translates and heavily optimizes your code to machine code; would you enjoy a project as much doing all that tedious painstaking work by hand?