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LPT: Don't Copy Paste AI Slop Without At Least Minimally Understanding What You Are Doing, Guys!

6 days ago 231.7K views 0 shares

So you're feeling adventurous, installing Linux for the first time, everything's going smooth. Then you hit a snag and ask your favorite AI chatbot for help. It confidently spits out some commands, and you—being the trusting soul you are—copy-paste them straight into the CLI without reading. Plot twist: the AI gave you commands for a completely different file system. You just shoved RTFM (Read The Freaking Manual) instructions into a CLI that expected something else entirely. Now your system is toast, Linux won't boot, and you're lying face-down on the pavement wondering where it all went wrong. The moral? AI is like that friend who sounds confident but doesn't actually know what they're talking about. Always skim what you're running, or you'll be reinstalling your OS at 2 AM while questioning your life choices. Fun fact: RTFM exists for a reason, and that reason is preventing exactly this kind of disaster.

Open-Source Archaeology

StackOverflow Git Programming

9 days ago 259.9K views 1 shares

Every developer's proudest moment: getting complimented on code you copy-pasted from Stack Overflow at 3 AM. The secret to writing "clean and beautiful" code? Find someone else who already solved your problem six years ago and ctrl+c, ctrl+v your way to glory. It's not plagiarism, it's called "leveraging the open-source community." The real skill isn't writing the code—it's knowing which GitHub repo to raid and having the confidence to accept credit for it with a straight face.

Hands-On Training

Programming StackOverflow

17 days ago 315.7K views 1 shares

Ah yes, the ancient art of physically forcing juniors to learn the holy trinity: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V. Why waste time teaching them design patterns, algorithms, or clean code when you can just ensure they've got muscle memory for copy-paste? The thumbtacks are doing God's work here—making sure those fingers stay exactly where they belong. Forget about understanding the code, just make sure you can duplicate it efficiently. Senior devs everywhere are nodding in approval while pretending they don't do the exact same thing when Stack Overflow comes to the rescue at 3 AM.

How Different Professions Handle Stolen Ideas

Git Webdev Programming StackOverflow

21 days ago 328.0K views 0 shares

How Different Professions Handle Stolen Ideas

Designers will fight to the death over who thought of rounded corners first. Programmers? We've all copy-pasted from Stack Overflow so much that code ownership is basically a philosophical debate at this point. And GitHub users have evolved past shame entirely—stealing code isn't theft, it's "collaboration" and "open source contribution." Fork it, slap your name on the README, call it a day. The real power move is when someone forks your repo, makes zero changes, and somehow gets more stars than you.

Stack Overflow Forever

StackOverflow Programming Debugging

24 days ago 176.3K views 0 shares

You know you've made it as a developer when you realize the only thing that changed between junior and senior is the quality of your Google search terms. Still copying code from Stack Overflow, just with more confidence and a better monitor now. The dependency never goes away, you just get better at pretending you understand what you're pasting.

To That One Vibecoder That Talked Shit

StackOverflow Programming Debugging

28 days ago 180.0K views 0 shares

Oh honey, someone woke up and chose VIOLENCE today! This is the programmer equivalent of "I didn't cheat on the test, I just strategically collaborated with my neighbor's paper." Our hero here is out here defending their honor with the intensity of a thousand code reviews, swearing on their IDE that they're crafting artisanal, hand-written code with ZERO help from Stack Overflow. They're basically saying "I may not understand what my code does, but at least it's MINE and I didn't copy-paste it!" Which is... honestly a flex of questionable value? Like congratulations, you organically grew your bugs from scratch! 🏆 The real tragedy is claiming they "perfect their code to the best of their abilities" while simultaneously admitting they don't understand how it works. That's not perfection bestie, that's just throwing spaghetti at the wall until something sticks and calling it Italian cuisine.

This Is Software Development About, Apparently

Debugging Webdev Programming StackOverflow

29 days ago 463.1K views 1 shares

This Is Software Development About, Apparently

You followed the tutorial character by character. Triple-checked for typos. The tutorial says it works. Your code says "nah." So you sit there, staring at your screen like a confused teddy bear with a bottle of whiskey, questioning every life choice that led you to this moment. Turns out the tutorial was written for Node 12, you're running Node 18, and there's a breaking change in a dependency that was deprecated four years ago. Or you're on Windows and the tutorial assumed Linux. Or the author just forgot to mention that one critical environment variable. Classic. Welcome to software development, where copy-paste is both the solution and the problem.

A Job Title That Accurately Describes My Workflow

StackOverflow Webdev Programming Frontend Backend

1 month ago 255.8K views 0 shares

A Job Title That Accurately Describes My Workflow

Forget Full Stack Developer—we're all just Pull Stack Developers copy-pasting from StackOverflow, GitHub repos, and random blog posts we found at 2 AM. The "stack" we're really mastering is Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V. Who needs to memorize syntax when you've got the entire internet as your external brain? Job interviews ask about data structures, but the real skill is knowing which search terms will get you the code snippet that actually works.

Randomly Stumbled Upon This Code In My Company's Product (CAE Software)

Programming C++ Algorithms Math

1 month ago 292.1K views 0 shares

Randomly Stumbled Upon This Code In My Company's Product (CAE Software)

Someone really said "I could use a loop" and then proceeded to manually hardcode what appears to be quaternion rotation calculations for every possible case. Each line is a beautiful handcrafted snowflake of copy-pasted arithmetic operations with slightly different array indices. This is what happens when you learn programming from a stenographer. The best part? There's probably a single matrix multiplication library function that could replace this entire screen of madness. But no, someone decided to type out hundreds of lines of p.a.c[i] * p.a.c[j] combinations like they were getting paid by the character. The code review must have been legendary. This is peak "it works, don't touch it" territory. Nobody's refactoring this beast because nobody wants to be the one who breaks the CAE software that's been running in production for 15 years.

Trust Issues With Keyboard Shortcuts

Programming

1 month ago 161.2K views 0 shares

We all paste with the confidence of someone who's never accidentally hit CTRL+C twice in a row and lost their precious clipboard content forever. Meanwhile, CTRL+V gets all the glory while we treat CTRL+C like it's made of glass and might shatter at any moment. The paranoia is real: you copy something important, then spend the next 30 seconds NOT touching your keyboard because one accidental keystroke could send your clipboard to the void. But paste? Spam that sucker 47 times just to be sure. Trust is earned, not given.

Trial And Error Expert

StackOverflow Programming Debugging

1 month ago 207.2K views 2 shares

Lawyers study case law. Doctors study anatomy. Programmers? We just keep copy-pasting Stack Overflow answers until the compiler stops screaming at us. No formal education needed—just a search bar, desperation, and the willingness to pretend we understand what we're doing. The best part is when you Google the same error five times and somehow the sixth time it magically works. That's not debugging, that's voodoo with syntax highlighting.

We Hired Wrong AI Team

AI Programming Backend

1 month ago 348.0K views 1 shares

When management thought they were hiring cutting-edge machine learning engineers to build sophisticated neural networks, but instead got developers who think "AI implementation" means wrapping OpenAI's API in a for-loop and calling it innovation. The real tragedy here is that half the "AI startups" out there are literally just doing this. They're not training models, they're not fine-tuning anything—they're just prompt engineers with a Stripe account. But hey, at least they remembered to add error handling... right? Right? Plot twist: This approach actually works 90% of the time, which is why VCs keep throwing money at it.

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LPT: Don't Copy Paste AI Slop Without At Least Minimally Understanding What You Are Doing, Guys!

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To That One Vibecoder That Talked Shit

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