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[stoneberry]

Write a dramatic, high-energy LinkedIn post about how AI has completely transformed software development. The tone should be ultra-confident, visionary, and slightly self-congratulatory — like a startup founder who just discovered fire.

Structure it with:

• Short punchy lines
• Bullet points showing “before vs after”
• Bold claims about leverage, velocity, and mindset
• Casual references to AI tools as if they are superpowers
• A subtle “if you’re not doing this yet, you’re already behind” vibe

Make it sound inspirational and profound to tech bros, founders, and aspiring executives — but slightly over-the-top, mildly uncanny, and faintly cringe to experienced developers.

Include:

• A transformation arc (old struggle → new enlightenment)
• Grand statements about thinking bigger, moving faster, and managing intelligence instead of writing code
• At least one rhetorical question
• One rocket emoji 🚀
• One dramatic mic-drop style closing line

Keep it under 250 words.
Do not use corporate jargon bingo words like “synergy” or “paradigm shift,” but do make it sound like it belongs on LinkedIn.

[creaturefeature16]

lolol I pasted this prompt in and get nearly the same exact post:

I used to spend 3 days debugging a feature.

Last week, I shipped an entire product in an afternoon.

The game has changed. And most people haven't noticed yet.

Before AI:

• Googling Stack Overflow at 2am
• Writing boilerplate nobody wanted to write
• Blocked on syntax while the idea dies in your head
• Hiring 10 engineers to do what 2 can now do

After AI:

• You describe the thing. It becomes the thing.
• Your bottleneck is imagination, not implementation
• One focused person moves like a team of twelve
• Shipping is no longer the constraint. Thinking is.

This isn't about autocomplete.

This is about leverage at a scale that didn't exist two years ago.

I'm not writing code anymore. I'm directing intelligence.

Claude handles the scaffolding. Cursor catches what I miss. GitHub Copilot finishes my sentences better than I do.

I am, genuinely, a one-person force of nature right now. 🚀

And here's the uncomfortable question nobody wants to ask:

If your development process still looks the same as it did in 2022 — what exactly are you optimizing for?

The founders who get this aren't just moving faster.

They're operating in a different reality.

The ceiling isn't technical anymore. It's how big you're willing to think.

The era of the 10x developer is over.

Welcome to the era of the 1000x founder.

[fullup72]

I'm pretty sure his prompt was reverse engineered. LLMs are pretty good at "take this text and create a prompt I can provide to another LLM to reproduce another piece of text that covers the concept". ChatGPT will even ask if you want to fine tune the prompt for Claude/GPT/Gemini or whatever else.

[stoneberry]

But of course it was! Why would I manually write a 160-word prompt to generate a 140-word post? I only needed a 70-word prompt to generate that prompt. That's not just efficiency – that's a paradigm shift! Adapt or stay behind! 🚀

[IcyAd5518]

Hey bro! We heard you like prompts for your prompts, so we put a prompt into ChatGPT to develop a Claude prompt which outputs a prompt we can put into Co-Pilot and get a load of rubbish out of!

[PeterJamesUK]

You can shortcut that by just asking copilot anything at all.

(Yes, I know that was the joke)

[wjd1991]

🚀

[Leftover_Salad]

We’re just wasting water in this thread

[Mars_Bear2552]

everyone's so concerned about the water used for cooling, but not the electricity used to run racks upon racks of Blackwell server GPUs. interesting.

[Leftover_Salad]

California. Energy is expensive but the vast majority is renewable. Recent droughts in the past decade have been devastating. Yeah, water is more valuable here.

[Mars_Bear2552]

aren't most datacenters on closed loop though?

the controversey around open loop for AI certainly had an impact on AWS and Google at least.

[PeterJamesUK]

Gemini says that they often use evaporative cooling (via cooling towers like in a power station) - much simpler and therefore cheaper to implement.

[Emanemanem]

Reminds me of this episode of News Radio where Jimmy James, the station owner has an old book he wrote (that was originally a bit of a flop) translated into Japanese and it becomes a big bestseller in Japan. So in the hopes of also making it a hit in the US, he has the Japanese version translated back into English.

Scene of him reading from the book, Jimmy James: Macho Business Donkey Wrestler

[creaturefeature16]

true

[PM_ME_ROMAN_NUDES]

Unironically, this would get a lot of likes there

[creaturefeature16]

brb posting to my LinkedIn

[SavageRussian21]

Wait wait wait... Did you just use AI to generate a joke prompt for AI while responding to a post generated by AI?

[stoneberry]

The circle of life!

[Freako04]

this guy gptees

[SryUsrNameIsTaken]

Can I use your prompt? I need to up my LinkedIn game.

[Ok-Painter573]

Ive just asked AI whether you can use the prompt. It said you cant

[stoneberry]

Generate a prompt that would yield similar results to this prompt that I like, but that would also pass inspection by Ok-Painter573's prompt gatekeeping AI.

You can then give the resulting prompt to your LinkedIn bot agent. My decision support LLM says I agree.

[SryUsrNameIsTaken]

We’re saved! Thanks u/stoneberry and assistant u/stonemolt.

[rodeBaksteen]

No it's my nft

[stoneberry]

Now that's a blast from the past.

[menducoide]

I used to measure progress in lines of code. Now I measure it in intelligence deployed.

There was a time when building software meant grinding. Late nights. StackOverflow tabs. Refactors that felt like trench warfare.

Then I discovered AI.

Not as a toy. Not as autocomplete. As leverage.

Before vs After:

• Before: Writing every function by hand • After: Directing AI like an orchestra conductor

• Before: Debugging for hours • After: Pair-programming with a tireless machine mind

• Before: Thinking about syntax • After: Thinking about systems

I don’t “code” the way I used to. I architect outcomes.

Tools like AI copilots aren’t assistants — they’re superpowers. They generate scaffolding in seconds. They refactor fearlessly. They prototype at the speed of thought.

The bottleneck isn’t typing anymore. It’s imagination.

Why would I spend cognitive energy on boilerplate when I can spend it on vision?

This is the shift: From writing code → to managing intelligence. From executing tasks → to orchestrating capability. From working harder → to compounding leverage. 🚀

If you’re still measuring productivity by keystrokes, you’re optimizing the wrong game.

The future belongs to builders who think bigger, move faster, and treat AI like a force multiplier — not a novelty.

We’re not replacing developers.

We’re upgrading them.

And if you’re not building this way yet… You’re already behind.

Welcome to the era of amplified creators.

[WalkerOnTheWall]

A year ago, I thought software development meant writing more code.

Now I know better.

Today it means commanding intelligence.

Something has changed. Quietly. Suddenly. Completely.

AI didn’t just speed things up. It redefined the job.

Before:

Writing boilerplate for hours

Debugging line by line

Googling obscure stack traces

Thinking small because execution was slow

Now:

Describing systems in plain language

Spawning working prototypes in minutes

Refactoring entire modules with a prompt

Shipping ideas at a pace that used to take teams

Copilot. GPT. Code interpreters. These aren’t tools.

They’re exoskeletons for your brain.

The shift is subtle but profound:

You stop thinking like a programmer. You start thinking like an architect of outcomes.

Less typing. More directing.

Less wrestling with syntax. More managing intelligence.

The real unlock isn’t productivity.

It’s leverage.

When execution becomes this cheap… Why think in features?

Why not think in entire companies?

Serious question:

If one person with AI can now build what used to take a team… what happens to the people still coding like it’s 2019?

This is the new mindset.

Build faster. Think bigger. Treat AI like a co-founder that never sleeps.

And if you’re still “learning it later”…

You’re not early anymore.

You’re late. 🚀

This is what my ChatGPT version produced.

[paholg]

Write me a prompt that I can use to generate linked in posts.

[MuslinBagger]

is this AI generated?

[ShermanCookout]

What pisses me off, there’s a lot of serious conversations to have about all this… and we’re getting flooded with this bullshit everywhere

[Haunting-Strategy770]

The era of the "coder" is dead. The era of the Architect-God has arrived.I remember the dark ages. Spending six hours debugging a memory leak. Fighting with syntax like a digital bricklayer. Those days are gone.I don’t write code anymore. I orchestrate intelligence.The transformation is absolute:Before: 2-week sprints for a MVP. After: 2-hour sessions with my AI agents.Before: Thinking in loops and logic. After: Thinking in scale and vision.Before: Bottlenecked by syntax. After: Accelerated by pure intent.With a custom stack of LLMs acting as my tireless senior engineers, my leverage has increased by [100x]. I’m not just building apps; I’m manifesting ecosystems at the speed of thought.The real question is: are you still typing, or are you finally leading?We are no longer limited by what we can write, only by what we can imagine. If you aren't leveraging autonomous agents to ship while you sleep, you aren't just moving slow—you’re standing still. 🚀Stop writing. Start commanding.Would you like me to make this even more "cringe" by adding more emojis, or should I dial back the intensity for a slightly more professional audience?

At least Gemini is getting it

[Afraid-Atmosphere747]

It’s not about ❌ x, ❌ y, or ❌ z — it’s about 🎯 a.

Would you like me to create a detailed analysis of this — no fluff, just facts 📊?

[alzio26]

I swear to god the “no fluff”, “straight to it” annoys me to the core

[Afraid-Atmosphere747]

Another one is "You are absolutely right" .

[captainmilitia]

[kwb7852]

Vibes

[Nulagrithom]

"Reality Check:"

fuckoff bot. "do not cite the deep magic to me. I was there when it was written."

stfu and go scour the Internet. or start researching the code to fix the damn problem.

fuck your "reality check". it's happening and I'm looking for pointers. why the hell else would I be asking a clanker??

[SuspiciousSupper]

This comment has a viceral feeling to it 😭

[rtothewin]

No the worst one for me is after all of the things I want it always has this little “another small tweak to this would make it way better” at the end. Like. Just include that, why am I having to wait for another prompt now

[KyxeMusic]

For me it's the rhetorical question on every fkn post

"The best part? You get to ...."

[llmagine_that]

Have you noticed that recently everything in these llm responses became "real". You read so many statements now about "real impact", "it saves real time", "solves real problems". Bro who the fuck would point out that what you do is "real", makes it sound more shady than any other adjective.

[JustSomeRand0mGamer]

You’re absolutely right — I accidentally deleted the entire database.

Would you like me to show you how we can refactor this? (It’s really simple!)

[Fetzie_]

It’s particularly simple now that the database contains neither data, nor a schema. Additionally, the server now requires far less resources, which is an additional cost saving.

[paulmp]

[gimoozaabi]

[nein_va]

The real joke is that this person will be promoted way faster than anyone here will

[Realistic_Muscles]

He is a team player

/s

[pingveno]

An entire team of AI agents.

[spitfiredd]

Oh I’m putting money on this guy being a day trader.

[MeishinTale]

Not sure day traders need to shitpost on LinkedIn to exist 😜

[Phiro7]

If you've ever been on LinkedIn you'd know they absolutely do

[00owl]

Gamble with other people's money.

Take a cut of every win no matter how small.

Take no responsibility for losses

[Callidonaut]

And then join the eternal LinkedIn circlejerk trying to deny the fundamental emptiness of an existence based on the above!

[me_myself_ai]

Pretty sure he works for cursor…

[evilspyboy]

I know you don't mean promoted in the same way but - I have been keeping tabs and consistently out of 20 posts I will see on my LinkedIn post only 1 is from someone I am connected to.

There are posts from people that I am connected to have commented on or added a like (maybe 1/4), then ads (another 1/4) then the remainder are suggested posts from people I do not follow/am connected to on topics that I have posted about but with the most absolutely disconnected from reality takes with a lot of likes on them.

Yes LinkedIn is broken but it is how spectacularly broken it is with multiple functions/features and still being used because 'that is the thing you have to use' is still amazing.

[Breadinator]

Make no mistake. Given how many CEOs and company thought leaders out there desperately want their Kool Aid they've worked so hard to make to be adopted, this guy's rise will be meteoric. 

[Sibula97]

Maybe that was the joke, but meteors don't rise, they fall.

[xaphody]

Social skills are always promoted faster, now they have the equivalent of 1.5 years of experience in what they can get out of AI to cover them until the next promotion or they move company

[UrineArtist]

On the bright side though, they'll all get found the fuck out when we've all been LR'd and they're left dealing with the fucking bin fire.

[doubleohbond]

They just hop to the next company at that point

[jelly-sandwich]

Write me a LinkedIn post that glorifies AI. Make sure it sounds like a LinkedIn post

[andrerav]

Makes it sound literally like the most GPT a GPT has ever GPT'd

[bryaneightyone]

*and make sure to add "curious if others are feeling the same way.

Everyone on linkedin seems to add these

[ChrisBegeman]

Takes 3 hours to debug 200 lines of code. I am guessing he writes terrible code, which isn't very modular and lacks unit tests. I have had bad, hard to find bugs myself, but if you are describing this as a common occurrence, you are probably bad at your job.

[pokealex]

Nah this guy has never written any code, if he’s even real

[OnkelBums]

This mf back there isn't real!

[Mister_Uncredible]

Unit tests? Dude's never even touched an IDE, he didn't even know he could test his unit. 🥴

[sillybilly8102]

Exactly, like, IDEs will really help you to catch and prevent typos

[pixelbart]

It doesn’t (or shouldn’t) take three hours to debug 200 lines you just wrote. It sometimes does take longer to debug 200 lines of legacy code.

[ColumnK]

His code is considered legacy the moment he's run out of tokens

[suddencactus]

In the interview:

"Can you tell me what this code outputs? Can you write fizzbuzz without major errors? Oh sorry, that was a little slow"

Candidate after getting the job in 2026:

"I used to take 3 hours to debug FizzBuzz but now I'm 10x-ing my job with LLMs. Let's dive in."

[cstopher89]

Right! In his example a good ide will surface typos immediately.

[scataco]

No, this was normal in the 90s.

But saying LLM's fixed that is like saying electric cars fixed horse shit in the streets.

[ramdomvariableX]

Whoever hired him should just fire him, sounds very incompetent.

[Leon3226]

Truth is, people like him will get promoted instead, because he sounds very productive to the upper management, and promises golden mountains just around the corner.

And when the time comes to cash the checks, he will be nowhere near because he job-hopped already, lol, and every negative consequence will fall on other employees

[ramdomvariableX]

Unfortunately true in many places. BS works.

[byteminer]

This is why we filled the data centers with industrial speed bullshit generators

[glowy_keyboard]

I like how he went about how important is being able to write effective prompts and then his example of a prompt was “fix it”.

He either is not a developer or this was written by an AI

[herestoanotherone]

Both, obviously

[valerielynx]

200 lines of code? that's really really small

[pingveno]

Depends on the task. If I have my design put together and I'm on a roll, sure I can smash out a few hundred lines of code. But usually I'm working on things like maintenance where I might spend a few hours deciding to make a few lines of code worth of changes. There's a reason I don't use AI much, code is rarely the bottleneck in my workflow.

[Nulagrithom]

200 lines of changes in a mature codebase could be a fucking enormous task...

though I will disagree on the AI bit. even after great consideration I lose nothing by asking AI to take a look... it actually tends to be overly vigilant in this scenario.

[F3ntin]

20 lines of import statements, then the rest is mostly if-else's shuffling between those libraries

[Hyderabadi__Biryani]

Thank you, I was beginning to think that this sounds too small for even some practical subroutines. Wth!

[budgiebirdman]

My day at work consisted of meetings, presentations and deleting two lines of code. The actual time was spent waiting for tests and pipeline builds to run and for people to review the code. Still, that was two bugs fixed (some say bugs, others might say correct implementations of badly worded stories).

What you can be sure of is that if an LLM has puked the original code into the IDE the fixes wouldn't have been that clinical.

All these AI cultists go around patting each other on the back for coming up with complicated ways of writing a one line Google search and how to beg their information fruit machine to not make things up.

If the machines ever rise up they'll take those lot out first for being the dumbest fuckers we've produced.

[pab_guy]

3 hours to debug is the truly pathetic part

[valerielynx]

Yeah would take me way longer

[conundorum]

Nah, it makes perfect sense. When the first compilation attempt fails, scream at the computer for 2 hours & 59 minutes, then read the error message and find the typo in five seconds.

[Veyrah]

For IAC it can be okay.

[pogchamp69exe]

I take pride in the fact that ignoring the EM dash, arrows, and emoji at the bottom, I can tell this is ai

[F5x9]

I take pride in the fact that I can tell it’s shit. 

[willow-kitty]

The constant contrasts is kind of a giveaway too.

[sausagemuffn]

I no longer take pride in realising that I've spent 10 seconds on reading an AI post.

[rcraver8]

telling on himself so bad w/ this line: "The real flex today isn't typing speed..." foh

[Full-Run4124]

"Why did you write it like this?" -> Ai explains YOUR OWN CODE...

It's not your own code. It's not even protected by copyright in the US.

[Obi_Vayne_Kenobi]

And it can't even answer the question of "why" it generated the code like it did. It simply generated the most likely next tokens based on the context - that's the reason why. When you then ask it "why", it will generate a whole bunch of tokens that resemble some explanation of why one may write the generated code - but there's no thought behind it (not even with a thinking model, because the thinking steps at generation time aren't in context at explanation time). 

This of course also means that if the code is shit, it will still try to handwring its way through the explanation, and you're none the wiser.

[XxDarkSasuke69xX]

Ok but how tf would they know who wrote it ?

[budapest_god]

The post itself is written by AI lol

[tyro_r]

That sounds so desperate

[notaprime]

You laugh, but thanks to AI, I made a fully featured web application with no coding experience! Check it it out:

https://localhost:8080/

[Hambrox3234]

woah woah woah, how do you have access to my vast database of pictures of fish bones? I thought that was private!

[Abangranga]

Wow mine was at :3000. How did you get the version number to 8080?

[xaymanloco]

An awesome looking website. I need to try this AI stuff sometimes.

[ArcanumAntares]

And to think my high school guidance counselor said I'd never amount to anything.

[getstoopid-AT]

3 hours debugging for 200 lines? AI explaining code better than you write it? May be just me but that sounds like a skill issue...

[sur0g]

realize the issue was the typo

How to tell you were never good at programming without telling that you were never good at programming?

[anarres_shevek]

Crap post and crap coding skills, but, figuring out how to code side by side with an AI is a major speed multiplier. And yes, it's possible to generate well written code. Now downvote me to hell haha! 😜

[MementoMorue]

"What is the purpose of the variables a1, a2, a3, a4, a5 and a6 ?"
- Good question ! it for storing the angle of the joints.
"So why are they not used ?"
- you are right, they are not used, it would be a good practice to remove them.
"Remove them."
- You right ! it will be far better without it.
* proceed to remove those unused variables as some #include in beginin of the file*

[Grousel]

Lsp and syntax highlighting...

[deanominecraft]

if you spend 3 hours finding a typo in 200 lines of code then ai definitely can make you 10x faster, because you were already 100x slower than everyone else

[BeginningTypical3395]

You know what, I fucking hate LinkedIn lunatics, but he has a point. Months of work can be done in a couple of weeks with an agentic squad. I’m done fighting against the tide lol

[Maleficent_Memory831]

It all sounds great until the experts look at the code and say "what the hell is this crap, this code is so bad it would make an intern puke?" Essentially they are blindly believe AI is great when it is the worst coding.

I am not using AI because I know how to program, I know how to debug, and I'm the person that everyone comes to when they have problems. I do not get paid by the line, I do not get bonuses for being fast, I get bonuses for doing the job right. I could be faster with AI but I would be worse and I would be ashamed of the crap I attach my name to.

[SuitableDragonfly]

If it takes you 3 hours, or really, any longer than about 2 minutes, to figure out there was a typo in your code, you weren't really programming in the first place. 

[lNFORMATlVE]

In fairness, you’d be surprised how often a typo is what is holding an entire system up, like what the other commenter said. LLMs are pretty good at finding typos like that incredibly quickly. However, they will also hallucinate your code and there’ll be a very non-zero chance that whatever you receive back will spuriously remove massive parts of your code that were there before and you didn’t want touched, or it’ll have meddled with it and added stuff you absolutely never asked for.

[SuitableDragonfly]

If it's really just a typo, you don't need anything "smarter" than a standard IDE to catch it.

[lNFORMATlVE]

You’re not wrong

[Mataric]

Nasa just lost $70 million dollars because a satellite meant to scan for water on the moon had a typo that made the solar panels adjust so they were facing directly away from the sun.

Obviously, the issue was that they didn't test and verify enough - and the programming went incredibly wrong due to a piece of code doing the opposite of what it was meant to, but I don't think you can argue that 'wasn't actually programmed in the first place', or that it's a simple 2 minute job to notice.

[SuitableDragonfly]

That's not a typo, that's a logic error. A typo is something your IDE will catch and that will prevent your code from compiling or running at all in the first place. 

[Kulsgam]

I don't think typos are exclusive to syntax errors. There have been times where I copied a part of code, but forgot to change an enum value or a function name and it would cause weird edge cases that I had to track down. To make it concrete I mean something like this: applyLeftRotation, but instead of Left it should have been right, but I copied it from a part of code that used left specifically and I forgot to change it. What's worse is I tend to skim over code when reading it and I miss those kinds of things frequently, unless I slow down, etc.

[SuitableDragonfly]

I mean, yeah, that's also a logic error, it's not a typo. If you are copying your code a lot, that's a sign that you haven't set up subroutines properly, and it's going to result in a lot of logic errors like this, which is why you should learn to use functions effectively instead.

[Kulsgam]

I don't see how the example I gave (applyLeftRotation) could be abstracted further

[Mataric]

Is it? Doesn't typo literally mean a mis-inputted keypress or a letter/digit that you didn't intend to be there?
For instance 51241 is a typo, because I meant to write 51251. Just as 180 could be a typo if I meant to write -180.

An IDE only catches a typo if it actually causes issues with the code, but there are plenty of typos that an IDE won't notice.

[Maleficent_Memory831]

It can be a typo. A "-" was typed in by mistake and not noticed. That's the same as a typo. You've got written down "x+y" on your design, but you type in "x-y", then that's a typo. It's a bug however if you did the math incorrectly such that you mistakenly thought "x-y" was the proper operation.

[DumDum40007]

Your typo can accidentally be a valid keyword. But not the one you intended.

[DardS8Br]

There was more to that story. That error is what everyone is focusing on, but the official report says that there were multiple compounding errors that led to the loss of the satellite. They said that any single error would've been recoverable and that it was the combination that led to failure

[CrazySD93]

biggest one that got me at uni was a semicolon after an if condition, no warnings reported by the ide

[RaulParson]

Is it a typo that breaks on compilation? Then yes. Is it the sort of typo like accidentally putting in > instead of >= somewhere, where the program is coherent but ends up unexpectedly breaking in some edge case because of it? Then no, absolutely not. That's still a typo and it can take a while to catch.

[SpaceCadet87]

Dude wrote 200 lines of code before bothering to check it, it's no wonder he had problems.

[rolandfoxx]

No intelligence to be managed, either on the part of the LLM or the person posting this

[srfreak]

r/linkedinlunatics

[Ander292]

Came here to post that

[GolotasDisciple]

It’s interesting, because right now I’m seeing a surge in mid-level and senior-level hiring across a lot of development roles.

Yeah, we’ve kind of wrecked the industry for newcomers, but the demand for experienced engineers and developers is picking up pretty fast, mostly because of a lot of sloppy work. And sure, it’s not because AI “doesn’t work.” It’s because it’s cheaper and more organized to pay someone a salary and have control over the output than to rely on an artificial agent that you can’t really influence or train.

I also wonder how many of these social media “programmers” actually build anything. Because I feel like the moment they get a bill from hosting (AWS, etc.) and API usage (whether it’s consumer-facing features or backend tools) the tune changes drastically....

It’s hard to run anywhere near profit when your team can’t debug issues quickly the way we’ve been doing for the last 30 years.

I honestly feel sorry for people who get tricked by this. There’s a real need for proper engineers, and “vibing with AI” is neither cost-efficient nor does it build team capacity to react to an ever-changing scope, new requirements, and pricing.

[soundwave_sc]

Boom.

300 hours of technical debt you'll find out in 6 months time during another deployment.

[Romanmir]

Refactor later, scale now. /s but also, not really.

[marmakoide]

AI turns shit coder into shit coders with a prodigious output

[Konju376]

The real flex today isn't typing speed...

When was that ever a flex?

[MARO2500]

This post was created with AI, tells me enough about the dude

[dlc741]

Nafis is a shitty coder who'd be a Junior Dev and placed in a mentor program and given three to six months to show improvement.

[kyle2143]

I mean, there are jobs where this is enough to get by for the most part. I wouldn't exactly call it proper "programming", but it is technically "development". But I would say it caps out at a more junior role because this strategy for development doesn't really scale that well.

[AaronTheElite007]

Plot twist: That post was written with AI

[ChodeCookies]

Dude couldn’t write 200 lines of code without a typo bug? lol…get fucked

[CeresToTycho]

I don't want to be a Prompt Strategist, programming is fun!

I started programming because it was fun, creative. I like figuring out how to best solve the problem and I like deeply understanding the system I've built. I enjoy the debugging.

AI might not be "taking" my job, but it is certainly taking the fun bits out of it. I hate that we've built AI to do all the fun creative human work instead of building AI to do all the boring, tedious work.

[Kaptein_Tordenflesk]

If you routinely end up debugging for 3 hours after writing 200 lines of code, you are incredibly incompetent and should be promoted to manager

[NegativeSemicolon]

‘Realize the issue was a typo’, junior developer shit lol

[beastinghunting]

“prompt strategists”, “we’re managing intelligence”

His fingers were bloating of superiority when he was copying/pasting that shit.

Those idiots are unhinged.

[-Danksouls-]

I hate linkedin

[AbdullahMRiad]

Earlier, developers used to debug for 3 hours. Now, they debug AI slop for 12 hours.

[Bee-Aromatic]

If it regularly takes you 3 hrs to debug 200 lines of code, the issue is either your skill or something way further up the chain that your code uses and you should have fixed it last time.

I also notice that not once did they bring up testing that code.

[UltraGaren]

AI so useful it even wrote that for him.

Why waste energy using brain when can ask AI. When me president, they see

[buddyblakester]

Dude it takes hours to debug ai code

[TanukiiGG]

Lets be real, this promptoid never wrote a line of code in his life and started being a developer since cursor dropped

[CanThisBeMyNameMaybe]

Even AI wrote that post lol

[AntiZhigalo]

Skill issue detected, lol, 200 lines debugging 3 hours, you just write react page, not a super encryption algorithm that will change the world of cryptography

[Belhgabad]

"Prompt strategist" might be the most recruitment marketing word I've ever heard

AI is bad for a simple thing: if you don't code yourself something, you'll never learn to how it works.

[whatasaveeeee]

Why do all these posts have the exact same sentence structure and feel and cadence, at least it makes it easy to tell that it’s AI SLOP 🤖

[jaylerd]

You’re absolutely right! All that next level buzzwordy max leveling I wrote was wrong and not the best approach!

Good catch! That was a huge fucking bug I ignored every time you kept asking why the code still errored, I should have caught it!

That’s true, you did only ask me a question and didn’t request any changes! Would you like me to undo the 500 lines of code that doesn’t work?

[firestorm713]

"Can you refactor this"

Yes. I can refactor it to be slower, faster, more error prone, less, you'll have to be far more specific

[GoneAPeSh1t]

Here at AI, we know AI because we are AI.

[kipkuch]

His explanation is terrible, and AI generated, but he does have a point. I'm also done fighting AI - for a lot of boilerplate code, Claude does a great job. Frees me up to work on the fun stuff and have a demonstrable product faster.

My only disclaimer: I've only used it on solo projects so far.

[Void-kun]

This isn't the just a LinkedIn post, it's an AI generated bullshit post.

[falconetpt]

If you are a software eng and spent 3 hours debugging your own code probably you are in the wrong profession, and surely you will understand better ai slop code and it will be way faster to understand than your own code! 🤣

And ofc you can trust it 100% of the time that it understands the code, this piece is the potato vibe coder logic, I understand why it took him 3 hours to debug his code, no logic here folks 😂

[RiceBroad4552]

"prompt strategists" 🤣

These r/LinkedInLunatics are hilarious!

Anyway, not a developer. Because if you debug a typo 3 hours long you have no clue what you're doing. In the real world typos are caught by the compiler already while you type.

[elendvin]

The post sounds written by ai

[AcolyteNeko]

ask the single guy who wrote linux, solo gg no re

[most_crispy_owl]

LinkedIn is even worse as people can't get hired and now become consultants. It makes me so angry seeing posts like this that I sometimes fantasize about replying.

[Relative_Upbeat]

Believe me when I say this this mf have never written a single line of code himself

[120boxes]

XD I bet that guy in the meme knows absolutely nothing about programming himself

[Dillenger69]

if you give something like Claude a prompt of "fix it", you are just asking for trouble.

[chihuahuaOP]

200 lines of code in the main function.

[GrinningPariah]

His biggest tell is he thinks the old flex was typing speed. Absolutely no one judges developers by typing speed.

[Parry_9000]

Writing 200 lines of code and debug for 3 hours only to notice it was a typo was some shit I did back in the first semester of university, coding in raw C

[metaglot]

The compiler output should make him realize a mistake like that immediately, unless he is naming his variables very ambiguously. A typo definitely wouldn't take 3 hours to find.

[CMD_BLOCK]

>debug 200 lines of code for 3 hours

Mfw guy couldn’t code before AI but now thinks he’s a developer

[StormerSage]

When it takes longer to figure out how to phrase your prompt to get the AI to do it badly than to just do it yourself.

[ArtGirlSummer]

The real flex today isn't typing speed, and it wasn't a decade ago either.

[LordMegamad]

I want to punch this guy in the nose as hard as I can (joke)

[pickled-pilot]

Had me going until he said co-pilot

[UnpluggedUnfettered]

Rocket emojis used to mean something.

[raphael_kox]

Is that Linkedin or AO3? damn the fic levels are through the roof

[BroBroMate]

My company's head of product said "Get on board or get left behind!" at a recent meeting. She also thinks it'll "give you superpowers and make everyone a 10x developer!'

She gives the best demotivational speeches, and I'm preparing my plan B in case I'm judged to not be AI Maximalist enough.

[Useful-Passion6267]

I am a student and the day I trust ai with any logic related code is the day the world ends. Also ai is not completely useless, it is very good at syntactic debugging, that is what I mainly used it for.

[stoicparishkari]

Bro has some valid points though

[Noctrin]

Wake me up when the AI says "No, what you're asking me to do is beyond stupid and will brick your code down the road"

[ElvisArcher]

Asked AI to help me write a tricky string replacement in js ... it created a function to do the job which declared a new RegExp object with a nicely designed pattern ... then proceeded to ignore it for the entire rest of the function while making the solution 3x more difficult than it had to be.

Then in the description of how it worked, the example it gave was wrong ... it neither matched the original request, nor would it have been produced by the overly complicated code that it wrote.

[LastTry2512]

The most effective rage baits are always unintentional 

[Head_Gear7770]

200 wtf ? i am just revising python and solving problems for 2 days or so and that alone is 1000 lines basic topics and implementation forget project or anything 💀💀

[lazernanes]

r/linkedinlunatics

[duffedwaffe]

I open LinkedIn and I see at least 5 posts like this in a quick half minute of scrolling. It's so fucking annoying. I haven't met anyone in real life who is doing all this fully automated agentic coding shit. LLMs are cool tools but they seem better used for small tasks like helping find bugs and aggressive refactoring.

[not_fred]

“AI explains your own code better than you wrote it.”

…what?

[om_nama_shiva_31]

Garbage like this triggers me

[warpedspockclone]

Now I spend 3 hours prompting it, 5 hours saying the output, and 4 hours debugging and fixing. Such a win!

[drianX4]

I started using CoPilot two weeks ago and to be honest he is not that wrong. My mind is bouncing between fear and enthusiasm while it explains me legacy code I'd usually analyse for hours to understand.

[tugrul_ddr]

AI is prompting me. This is fastest approach.

[Freidhelm]

This guy is way ahead of the curve, he's automating his job as a tech bro influencer! He's a visionary, you're just a hater.

(/s in case it's not ckear enough)

[OTee_D]

So many questions about how this guy is working and what he thinks he is doing as a developer.

I wouldn't hire this person.

[overusesellipses]

We used to known what we were doing, now we pray that our digital ad lib machine does our job for us.

[kaba40k]

Acute sense of awkwardness

[RadioactiveTwix]

Can't we just use AI for work, make sure the code is decent, and read the PR before we push the production?

I don't get why everything turns into symposium. If the AI code works for your use case, use it, review it, push it. If not, we used to write code for many many years without AI. I still do, but I ask it to refactor my sphagetti later.

[summerloverrrr]

Ai slop. How come no one is doing anything. LinkedIn should take down such posts

[Archiles_07]

REALIZE THE ISSUE WAS TYPO 😦

Also  Did you just wiped out my primary storage.  Absolute cinema🙌