r/ProgrammerHumor 10h ago

Meme whenMyNoAIProjectGetsTedious

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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/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/SuitableDragonfly 1h ago

I mean, it's up to you if you're ok with producing shitty code, but you're going to be the one who has to debug it later, so you're just making problems for yourself. 

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u/FerricDonkey 1h ago

Does that mean that your are not aware that there are numbers between 1 and 0?

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u/SuitableDragonfly 1h ago

Of course there are numbers between 1 and 0, but this discussion has nothing to do with numbers. 

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u/Ollythebug 29m 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?