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The Next Generation Of Developers

The Next Generation Of Developers
Remember when we had to actually learn how to add two numbers? Now it's just OpenAI.chat("Sum of #{a} + #{b}") and call it a day. The terrifying part? This probably works better than half the arithmetic functions I've written in my 15-year career. Next they'll be asking ChatGPT to explain their own code to them during performance reviews. Evolution isn't always progress, folks.

The Programmer's Time Investment Strategy

The Programmer's Time Investment Strategy
Spending 10 days automating a 10-minute task is the hill we die on. It's not about efficiency—it's about principle. Sure, I could just do the thing manually 600 times over the next five years, but what if I need to do it 601 times? That's when my beautiful, over-engineered solution pays off. The ROI calculation conveniently ignores the 16 hours of debugging and the fact that I'll probably leave this job before it ever breaks even. But hey, at least I didn't have to do something boring twice.

That Day He Changed The World

That Day He Changed The World
Behold, the moment when programming evolved from tedious logic to "just ask the AI." This genius decided that calculating 1+2 was beneath their intellectual capabilities, so they summoned OpenAI for this complex arithmetic challenge. Why waste precious brain cells on elementary math when you can burn through API credits instead? The shadowy figure below is clearly the ghost of computer science past, silently judging our descent into algorithmic laziness. Next week: using GPT-4 to determine if water is wet.

Eternal Waiting For AI To Finish What It Started

Eternal Waiting For AI To Finish What It Started
Staring into the void waiting for that </button> to magically appear while your AI coding assistant just sits there like "I've done my part." That feeling when you've gone from manually closing your own HTML tags like a caveman to becoming completely dependent on technology that suddenly decides to ghost you. We've evolved from writing our own code to watching a cursor blink, silently judging our life choices. The modern developer experience: 50% coding, 50% waiting for machines to finish what they started.

The Automation Paradox

The Automation Paradox
The eternal developer dilemma: spend several hours automating a task that would take 5 minutes to do manually. Sure, the automation will save time... eventually... after the 84th run... in theory. But who's counting? Certainly not the developer crawling through the desert of inefficiency while ignoring the obvious oasis of just doing the damn thing.

The Classic Programmer Move

The Classic Programmer Move
Spending 10 days to automate a 10-minute task isn't a waste of time—it's an investment in your sanity. Sure, the math doesn't add up until you've run that script 144 times, but who's counting? The true victory is never having to do that mind-numbing task manually again. Plus, those 10 days weren't just coding—they included 9 days of procrastination, Stack Overflow deep dives, and telling everyone how you're "optimizing workflow." The smug satisfaction alone is worth the time deficit.

Believe Me, Man, Using A Script Will Save Time

Believe Me, Man, Using A Script Will Save Time
Spending 30 minutes writing a script to automate a 5-minute task is the developer equivalent of climbing Mount Everest "because it's there." Sure, we'll never break even on the time investment, but that's not the point. The point is that manual labor is for peasants, and we are nobility . We'd rather spend six times longer crafting an elegant solution than suffer through the indignity of clicking the same button twice. It's not procrastination—it's optimization . And we'll die on that hill, wearing our sunglasses indoors like the cool problem-solvers we pretend to be.

The Excel Automation Heist

The Excel Automation Heist
The ultimate programmer's dream achieved! Spent one weekend crafting Excel VBA macros to automate mundane tasks, then proceeded to binge-watch movies for nine entire months while the scripts did all the work. The perfect embodiment of the programmer's mantra: "I will spend 10 hours automating a 10-minute task I do once a day, so I can save 5 minutes... eventually." Except in this case, the ROI was astronomical. The beautiful part? Nobody noticed! Peak work-life optimization that would make any efficiency-obsessed developer shed a tear of joy.

Work Harder vs. Work Smarter

Work Harder vs. Work Smarter
Oh. My. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of spending 4 HOURS writing a script instead of suffering through 3 hours of mind-numbing manual labor! 💅 The DRAMA of it all - spending an EXTRA HOUR just to avoid clicking the same button 5,000 times like some sort of digital hamster on a wheel! But honey, that's not wasted time - that's an INVESTMENT in your sanity and future laziness. The script will be there tomorrow, but those 3 hours of your life? GONE FOREVER. Besides, what kind of self-respecting developer manually does ANYTHING that could be automated? The HORROR!

That's How You Do It: Modern Documentation Techniques

That's How You Do It: Modern Documentation Techniques
Look at me, taking a picture of ChatGPT instead of actually writing documentation. It's the modern dev equivalent of taking vacation photos of the information plaque instead of the actual mountain. Why spend hours documenting code when I can just ask an AI to do it later? Ten years of experience has taught me that future me will definitely understand what current me was thinking without proper docs. Totally. The irony of treating documentation like a distant, majestic view while the actual codebase is right there needing attention is just *chef's kiss*. We've evolved from "the code is self-documenting" to "the AI will document it for me."

Never Do Anything

Never Do Anything
The ultimate dream isn't having AI code for you or do your laundry - it's having AI handle everything while you ascend to your final form: a professional couch potato. Why optimize workflows when you can eliminate them? The future isn't about productivity tools; it's about outsourcing your entire existence to algorithms so you can finally achieve humanity's true purpose: absolutely nothing. The singularity isn't something to fear - it's something to schedule your Netflix binges around.

Thinking Outside The Box

Thinking Outside The Box
The classic "write a loop vs. hardcode everything" dilemma, beautifully illustrated. Why waste time crafting an elegant algorithm with nested loops and incrementing variables when you can just... print each line manually? Sure, your CS professor would have an aneurysm, but the code works, doesn't it? This is the programming equivalent of using a hammer to kill a fly – unnecessarily direct but undeniably effective. Bonus points for the confidence it takes to submit this in an actual interview. That's not laziness – that's efficiency with a side of audacity.