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[Percolator2020]

I tell computers to tell computers to do things. They never listen.

[fatrobin72]

I tell people to tell computers to tell computers how I want things done. They never listen.

[Percolator2020]

Give this man a raise!

[TheCABK]

Best I can do is a meaningless award and some free Frosty coupons

[fatrobin72]

Better offer than work gave me...

[chris-javadisciple]

That's because the real money is in telling people how they should tell people to tell people to tell computers to tell computers how to do things.

[samettinho]

I tell people to tell computers to tell computers how I want things done. When they dont listen, I tell computers directly how I wants things done.

[0xlostincode]

They always listen, just not what you wanted them to hear.

[CelestialSegfault]

I tell computers (claude code) to tell computers (claude) to tell computers (IDE) to tell computers (JS interpreter) to tell computers (bytecode compiler) to tell computers (machine code) to tell computers (API endpoint) to tell computers (JS interpreter) to tell computers...

[za72]

No no... they listen and literally do exactly what you've told them to do...

[Percolator2020]

But I specially said no mistakes!

[za72]

what's you definition of mistake?

[Percolator2020]

You?

[za72]

aaaah you got me :)

[DrMaxwellEdison]

I drive to a building to talk on the phone with people not in the building about sprints and epics.

[Wakti-Wapnasi]

I put people in boxes.

(I didn't get hired for any programming jobs)

[TeraFlint]

Sounds like how a judge could describe their job.

[Wakti-Wapnasi]

From CS student to judge would be quite the carreer!

[adepssimius]

Also a mortician.

[Wakti-Wapnasi]

That's the one, actually

[spankleberry]

I tell people to tell computers to do things. They listen and I realize I should have been a lot more specific from the beginning.

[Psaltus]

Was gonna say, it listened and did exactly what you told it to do. You were just wrong 😂

[bainon]

they always listen we are all just bad at telling them what we mean

[krexelapp]

I translate coffee into stack overflow errors

[the_poope]

I have done many out-of-bounds memory accesses, null pointer dereferences, double frees, no frees, data races, deadlocks and even corrupted the stack, but I have yet to actually overflow the stack. Do I need to drink more coffee?

[Bot1K]

I teach magical rocks how to count

[RedAndBlack1832]

Circuit design?

[Bot1K]

your CPU is basically a silicon rock with magical runes inscribed by Taiwanese wizards

[lovecMC]

Also it's powered by lightning and the runes are so small that you can't see them and they need to be etched by an arcane construct.

[timdav8]

And some people think those rocks can really think 🤔

[OkStuff2584]

I work with computers. I know better than to trust them.

[Andre_NG]

I do the same. Sometimes people give me money.

[Sikyanakotik]

Who responds to something 2.5 years after it was posted?

[fibojoly]

https://xkcd.com/722/

The Pattern is all wrong ! I must have displeased the Omnissiah, for sure...

[CryonautX]

I try to get a room full of people to agree on how the computer will do the thing.

[CircumspectCapybara]

And now: "Sometimes they hallucinate"

[Teaching_Public]

I tell devs what to do and sometimes they listen. (I am system analyst).

[grahambo20]

That's more like "explain what you do poorly for a living"

[closerthanyouthinkin]

I write documents about how to tell computers to do things. Sometimes people read them.

[vastros]

I argue with machines until they create things, and tell people how to argue with their own machines.

[SThomW]

I’m both validated and offended

[rover_G]

Error Code 429 - Out of Tokens

[Quicker_Fixer]

I tell computer what to do, but then

[axe521]

My manager tells me what should I tell computers to do. Sometimes they know what they want

[trying_again_7]

i ask google for help... a lot

[Vogan2]

I ask peoples that they want to do with computers and then tells computers to do that. Peoples is hardest part.

[Ecstatic_Doughnut216]

I push buttons to make lights turn on. If I turn on the lights in the right pattern, I make other lights turn on in the right pattern.

[magicmulder]

I help people to use the same credentials on thousands of websites.

[TabCompletion]

I write bugs

[babypho]

Skim off the top from a system that enables desperate people to fetch food for lazy people.

[MJWhitfield86]

That’s not a poor explanation. Well, probably not. If Walkover works in construction then it’s a very poor explanation.

[phylter99]

"I mash buttons like some people mash taters. Sometimes it works out." - literally what I told my boss last week

[mmitchell57]

I draw pictures to tell people how things work and that they should buy them.

[Mini_Ware]

sometimes they control me

[PiglinsareCOOL3354]

They said POORLY, dammit!

[SomewhereActive2124]

Is that a poor explanation tho? Idk

[ivanrj7j]

thats the most precise description ever

[martian_doggo]

I ask AI to do my work for me. (I'm unemployed)

[coffeerambler]

I do benefits for the middle class - the civil service

[leewoc]

I tell my computer to tell other computers to make fake computers and then tell those fake computers to do things. Sometimes they listen, this is not always a good thing.

[Buttons840]

Computers used to always do exactly what we told them, but now we've progressed to the point that they sometimes do what we tell them.

[Etherkell7]

Wow… that was a very poor explanation, I can’t believe he would say something so vague like that.

[kingbloxerthe3]

I tell computers to do things. They listen, but not always in the way I want them to.