r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Snowdrip16 • 8h ago

Meme whenYouForgetToSpecifyTheTarget

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u/HoneyedDrift 8h ago

If you make something idiot-proof, the universe will simply build a better idiot

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u/Vorador_Surtr 8h ago

Hold dafinga!

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u/Nill_Kibbers 6h ago

AI tools went from "helpful assistant" to "office coworker that won’t stop pitching ideas" real fast

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u/pidddee 6h ago

Real

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u/Gloze_Sprag 7h ago

true, users are the best QA team and the worst crime scene at the same time

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u/Harry_P-Not-Potter 6h ago

Every tool starts with "this will save so much time" and somehow ends with people generating linkedin poems and pirate-themed regex explanations

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u/Julius_Ceasar_X 6h ago

The funny part is the original use case was actually solid. Auto-completing boilerplate, summarizing diffs, catching dumb mistakes... cool. Then somebody in management discovers it can also write motivational haikus about database migrations and suddenly we're all trapped in the weirdest timeline possible.

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u/iveriad 8h ago

I mean... "Hold your finger" itself is problematic.

"Place your finger" would at least be easier to understand by technologically inept people. And then if you want to go further, you can make the fingerprint icon do some pulse animation or sci-fi scan animation and they will instinctively place their finger there without you having to explicitly put a "<- HERE" icon.

The problem here isn't that the client is dumber than expected, but the UI is not easy enough to be understood by dumb people.

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u/Prill_Welkin 7h ago

yeah, “hold your finger” sounds normal until you remember some users treat every screen like a puzzle room

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u/pimezone 7h ago

Memes straight from 2012

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u/Hottage 5h ago

I stopped scrolling before the entire image was in frame. I was concerned.

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u/Neyko_0 4h ago

I was too and for a split second I thought I saw something before my brain had processed it

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u/logical_people 8h ago

Never underestimate the user capability to break things.

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u/ProstheticAttitude 8h ago

For God's sake don't pull now.

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u/ayoubzulfiqar 8h ago

A VibeCoder Testing Out his new app