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This Sub Lately

11 minutes ago 2.5K views 0 shares

Oh look, we've reached the singularity where the robots have taken over... the meme subreddit. Every single post is now "I asked ChatGPT to explain recursion" or "Claude wrote my entire codebase in haiku form" and honestly? The workplace safety counter has been reset to ZERO days without an AI meme. ZERO. The programmer humor subreddit has basically become an AI screenshot repository where everyone's racing to post the most "hilarious" conversation they had with their digital overlord. We get it, you discovered that LLMs can write code and make jokes about semicolons. Revolutionary stuff, truly.

End Of Life For A Few Nvidia Models

Hardware AI Programming

36 minutes ago 7.5K views 0 shares

Nothing says "planned obsolescence" quite like Nvidia casually yeeting perfectly good GPUs into the abyss. These RTX 50-series cards barely had time to collect dust before Nvidia decided they're done supporting them. Classic tech giant move—drop support faster than you can say "driver update." For developers and ML engineers who just dropped a kidney's worth of cash on these cards, watching Nvidia toss them aside like yesterday's garbage hits different. You're still paying off the credit card, and they're already pretending your hardware doesn't exist. The Toy Story format captures that exact moment when you realize your expensive hardware investment just became a very pricey paperweight. Woody's desperate plea perfectly mirrors every dev's internal screaming when their production server's GPU suddenly becomes unsupported legacy hardware.

Easy Explanation Of Pointers

C++ Programming

1 hour ago 13.2K views 0 shares

So you start with a regular int and everyone's cool. Then you add one asterisk to make it int* and people get a little excited but still following along. Add another asterisk for int** and now we're pointing to a pointer and things are getting spicy. But void* ? That's where your soul leaves your body. It's a pointer to... something. Could be anything. Could be nothing. The compiler has given up on type safety and so have you. It's the programming equivalent of "trust me bro" and the reason why C programmers have that thousand-yard stare. Fun fact: void* is basically how malloc tells you "here's some memory, figure it out yourself" which is both terrifying and liberating.

Stackoverflow 📉

AI Programming StackOverflow

1 hour ago 18.6K views 0 shares

Look, I've been around long enough to know that AI replacing programmers is the tech equivalent of "flying cars by 2020." But Stack Overflow? Yeah, that's actually happening. Why spend 20 minutes waiting for some moderator to mark your question as duplicate when ChatGPT will just... answer it? Wrong sometimes, sure, but at least it won't roast you for not including your environment details. Stack Overflow traffic has genuinely tanked since LLMs became mainstream. Turns out people prefer a hallucinating AI that's nice to them over a correct human who makes them feel like an idiot. Can't say I blame them.

Meetings Are Forever

AI Agile Programming

1 hour ago 23.3K views 0 shares

So we were promised AI would automate all the boring stuff and free us up to do actual work. Instead, we got more meetings—just now they're about AI. Strategy sessions, adoption roadmaps, governance committees, ethical frameworks... it's meetings all the way down. The cruel irony is that AI was supposed to be our savior from calendar hell, but management heard "AI" and immediately scheduled 6 recurring syncs to discuss it. You're not coding anymore—you're explaining to stakeholders why ChatGPT can't just "fix the legacy codebase" while your actual sprint work collects dust. The revolution will not be automated. It will be scheduled for 2pm on Thursday with optional attendance.

The #1 Programmer Excuse For Legitimately Slacking Off (2026 Edition)

Git Webdev Devops Programming

2 hours ago 30.3K views 0 shares

The #1 Programmer Excuse For Legitimately Slacking Off (2026 Edition)

The ultimate get-out-of-jail-free card for developers. When GitHub goes down, it's not just an outage—it's a company-wide productivity apocalypse wrapped in a legitimate excuse. Your manager walks by demanding results? "GitHub is down." Suddenly you're not slacking, you're a victim of circumstances. Can't push code, can't pull updates, can't even pretend to look at pull requests. It's like a snow day for programmers, except instead of building snowmen, you're browsing Reddit and calling it "waiting for critical infrastructure to recover." The beauty is in the legitimacy. You're not lying—you genuinely can't work. Well, you could work locally, but let's not get crazy here. The entire modern development workflow revolves around GitHub like planets around the sun. No version control? That's basically coding in the dark ages. Manager's instant "oh, carry on" is chef's kiss. Even they know the drill. When GitHub's down, the whole dev team enters a state of sanctioned limbo.

Is There Even Any Safe Browser?

Security Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend

3 hours ago 41.9K views 0 shares

When you work at Google and realize that cookie consent banners are just UX theater. The code literally says "if user accepts cookies, collect their data. else... also collect their data." It's the illusion of choice wrapped in GDPR compliance paperwork. The autocomplete suggestion "abc data" is the cherry on top—like the IDE is trying to help you remember all the different data collection endpoints you've built. "Was it abc data? Or xyz data? Oh wait, it's ALL the data." Spoiler alert: There is no safe browser. They're all just different flavors of data collection with varying levels of honesty about it. At least Google's upfront about monetizing your existence.

Party Hard

Programming C++

4 hours ago 58.7K views 0 shares

When someone asks what you're doing on a Saturday night and you're literally hardcoding a massive array of random numbers like some kind of digital masochist. Nothing screams "living your best life" quite like manually typing out 7,62,2,46,79,83,26,82 and continuing for what looks like an eternity. The timestamp showing 17:54 is just *chef's kiss* – because who needs happy hour when you can have array initialization hour? This is the programming equivalent of counting grains of sand on a beach, except somehow less fun and more carpal tunnel inducing. 241K views because apparently we all love watching someone's descent into madness in real-time.

Will Be Fun 2 Months Later

Programming Devops Backend Cloud

5 hours ago 69.9K views 0 shares

Imagine raising TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS to build your SaaS empire, only to discover your internal team slapped together the same tool in 14 days using duct tape and caffeine. The sheer AUDACITY of that excited developer on the left, proudly announcing they "vibe coded" a solution while the VC-funded founder sits there contemplating every life choice that led to this moment. Plot twist: that internal tool is probably held together by a single SQL query, three bash scripts, and pure spite—but hey, it works! Meanwhile, the $200M version is still in its third sprint planning meeting discussing whether to use microservices or a monolith. The real tragedy? The internal tool will become production because "it's just temporary" (narrator: it was never temporary). Fast forward 2 months and that vibe-coded masterpiece is now the company's core infrastructure with zero documentation, no tests, and the original developer just gave their two weeks notice. Godspeed! 🫡

This Is Actually Wild

Gamedev Programming Debugging

6 hours ago 81.1K views 0 shares

So someone discovered that Monster Hunter Wilds was doing aggressive DLC ownership checks that tanked performance. A modder tricked the game into thinking they owned all DLC and boom—instant FPS boost. The unintentional part? Capcom wasn't trying to punish pirates or non-buyers. They just wrote such inefficient code that checking your DLC status every frame became a performance bottleneck. The punchline writes itself: Capcom's management seeing this bug report and realizing they can now market DLC as a "performance enhancement feature." Why optimize your game engine when you can monetize the fix? It's like charging people to remove the memory leak you accidentally shipped. That Homelander smile at the end perfectly captures corporate executives discovering they can turn their own incompetence into a revenue stream. Chef's kiss.

Modern Full Stack Developer

AI Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

6 hours ago 88.7K views 0 shares

Oh honey, you thought "full-stack" meant knowing React AND Node.js? How adorably 2019 of you! Now it means having three AI assistants open in browser tabs like some kind of digital puppet master. Claude for the elegant code, ChatGPT for when you need something explained like you're five, and Perplexity for... honestly, just vibes at this point. The real tech stack is now: 40% prompting skills, 30% knowing which AI hallucinates less, 20% copy-pasting with confidence, and 10% pretending you totally knew that solution all along during code reviews. Frontend? Backend? Database optimization? Nah bestie, the only stack that matters is your AI subscription stack. Welcome to 2024, where "full-stack developer" just means you're full of tabs running LLMs who actually do the work while you sip coffee and feel like Tony Stark.

Sad Unemployment Tears

Javascript Webdev React Programming Frontend

6 hours ago 92.7K views 0 shares

Bootcamps out here watching the tech job market burn like a dystopian hellscape while desperately trying to sell their $25k JavaScript courses. Nothing says "great investment" quite like spending the price of a decent used car to learn React hooks while senior devs with 10 years of experience are getting ghosted by recruiters. The timing couldn't be worse—it's like selling swimming lessons on the Titanic. These bootcamps promised you'd be making six figures in 3 months, but forgot to mention that "junior developer" positions now require 5 years of experience, a CS degree, and the ability to single-handedly architect a distributed system. But hey, at least you'll know how to center a div... for only 25 grand.

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