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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 02-Oct-2026 10:40:59 JST Rich Felker

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   • Azuaron

   @Azuaron @WeirdWriter I would say a big part of the cause of that is that incompetent management is treating lines of code as a metric of productivity rather than a metric of "you're doing something horribly wrong".

   Of course you hate programming if the task of programming is piling on millions of lines of code consisting mostly of boilerplate pattern shit rather than expressing the actual requirements in a way that's both compact and comprehensible.

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     Azuaron (azuaron@cyberpunk.lol)'s status on Friday, 02-Oct-2026 10:41:01 JST Azuaron

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     @WeirdWriter When AI really started hitting earlier this year, the thing I was surprised to learn was that a ton of programmers--maybe even most of them--fucking hate coding. I don't know if they accidentally did well in an intro course and let it determine the rest of their lives, or if they just got into it because the job prospects looked good or what, but at least in my corner of the industry, programmers fucking hate coding.

     I started college as a computer engineering major with the thought that I'd love hardware and tolerate programming, and got three months in and hated hardware so much I switched majors to psychology. But, I kept up with programming in my electives because I actually enjoyed it, and coming out of college and looking at the "experimental psychology" industry vs. "programming" and that was a real easy decision.

     Now, the AI requirements at my job make me want to quit. I code in the evenings on my own time just to get my coding fix.

     But almost all my coworkers? I think if they never had to look at another line of code, they'd be happy.

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     Robert Kingett (weirdwriter@caneandable.social)'s status on Friday, 02-Oct-2026 10:41:02 JST Robert Kingett

     I don’t get it. Is this what AI psychosis is all about? I’m very shocked that this is the same guy that created Pinafore and no use of a local model or even an ethical one either. I’m not a programmer so I just don’t get it, I guess. In my profession, I simply don’t want anything creating for me. AI tribalism | Read the Tea Leaves https://nolanlawson.com/2026/01/24/ai-tribalism/ #AI #LLM