Reddit Engineers Right Now

The programmer's emotional roulette wheel has precisely two settings: "I'm a genius" and "I suck." That tiny sliver of genius euphoria comes right after fixing a bug that took 8 hours to solve (which was just a missing semicolon). The massive "I suck" portion represents the other 23 hours and 59 minutes of the day when your code inexplicably breaks after adding a single comment. No middle ground exists in this profession—just the perpetual whiplash between godlike omnipotence and questioning your career choices.

Content 09:13 Lex Fridman lexfridman 5h Everything is a computer. 0 1.031 17 546 5.062 1. Grady Booch Grady Booch Replying to lexfridman A rock is not a computer. 04:00 310822 from Kaanapali, HI Twitter for iPhone 6 Retweets 3 Quote Tweets 473 Likes 17 Taylor Caforio Tcafff 4h Replying to GradyBooch and lexfridman The elements in the rock have a code they run when they interact through physics with other elements or rocks or heat or anything else in the universe. That code is law. I think that's what he's attempting to ideate. 9 7 27 M 26 1, Grady Booch GradyBooch 3h It's a foolish analogy that is neither descriptive nor predictive nor testable. If everything is X, then the semantics of X are meaningless. Tweet your reply

The facade of normalcy versus the chaotic reality of software development in one perfect image! Users are happily dining on a beautiful balcony, completely oblivious to the structural disaster underneath where a lone developer is frantically patching the crumbling foundation. That moment when you push a hotfix at 2PM while Slack is blowing up with "is the system down?" messages from sales. Meanwhile, your CEO is demoing the "rock-solid platform" to potential investors upstairs. The digital equivalent of "this is fine" while everything's literally collapsing around you.

When the product team forgets to replace the placeholder text and now you're selling Default_juice in production. Classic case of "it worked on my machine" making its way to the shelves! The QA team must've been drinking something stronger than juice that day. Somewhere, a developer is frantically writing a hotfix while explaining to management that "technically, it's still juice..."

Content Brenan Keller brenankeller A QA engineer walks into a bar. Orders a beer. Orders 0 beers. Orders 99999999999 beers. Orders a lizard. Orders -1 beers. Orders a ueicksidhd. First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is. The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone.

The ETERNAL DILEMMA of our generation! You've spent 17 hours crafting what you think is a masterpiece of code, and in your desperate need for validation, you ask that fateful question: "Does my code look good?" And what do you get? Senior Dev with years of battle scars and crushed dreams says "No" with the emotional range of a brick wall. Meanwhile, the LLM—that digital yes-man with no actual coding experience—is practically GUSHING with approval! And there you are, caught in the middle, desperately wanting to believe the AI that's never had to debug at 4am while crying into a Red Bull. The betrayal! The DRAMA! Welcome to 2024, where we trust machines that were trained on Stack Overflow more than humans who actually know what they're doing! 💀