It's Not About The Help, It's About The Correction

Content 1 Am Devloper iamdevloper 21h googling an issue and finding your own question on stack overflow from 6 months before

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The genius wordplay here is killing me. While the tech world obsesses over "full stack developers" (those mythical unicorns who can handle both frontend and backend), this guy proudly declares himself a "pull stack developer" - someone whose primary skill is copying code from Stack Overflow and random GitHub repos. Let's be honest, we're all pull stack developers on those days when deadlines loom and caffeine levels drop. The difference is most of us don't put it on our LinkedIn profiles. This tweet is basically the programmer equivalent of "I'm not a chef, I just heat up frozen meals and arrange them nicely on plates." 5,079 likes because truth hurts, but honesty deserves upvotes.

Content A stack overflow answer from 2 decades ago with 1 upvote Do you trust me? Me, who's new to programming With every cell of my body.

Remember when we worried AI would take our jobs? Now we're watching LLMs trying to code by regurgitating increasingly stale StackOverflow answers from 2015. It's like watching your replacement get dumber in real time. The top panel shows happy, innocent SpongeBob - that's our AI models in 2022-23, cheerfully scraping StackOverflow for all that juicy developer knowledge. The bottom panel is the grim reality waiting in 2024-25: depressed SpongeBob sitting in a dimly lit room with a thousand-yard stare, because there's no fresh data to learn from. Just the same old "marked as duplicate" answers from a decade ago. Turns out training on yesterday's solutions doesn't prepare you for tomorrow's problems. Who knew?

The eternal struggle of a desperate coder, captured in one image! On the left, we have LLMs promising to "help with programming questions" but won't actually insult you (how considerate). On the right, StackOverflow boasting it's "accurate" and "used by people who know what they're doing" while flexing knowledge of "even the most obscure languages." It's the perfect illustration of our coding dilemma: get polite, possibly hallucinated answers from an AI that treats you like a fragile child, or brave StackOverflow where your "simple question" will be closed as duplicate, marked as trivial, and someone will suggest you shouldn't be programming at all. Choose your poison!