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Not my problem (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] Pechente@feddit.org 165 points 6 days ago

Bro can you fix my broken vibe coded app?

[-] Transform2942@lemmy.ml 79 points 6 days ago

For 200 bucks an hour

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago

300 minimum for contract work

I've got mouths to feed

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

And I got a real job that I will be doing for longer than a week, so the the money has to justify me spending my rare free time.

[-] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

Is that a number you can actually charge? Because if so, there's some prices I'm gonna have to raise.

[-] mkwt@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

That number is at the high end of what I usually see for consulting work. The high hourly rate has to cover all of the HR and accounting overhead, invoicing, marketing, business development, and the opportunity cost of short term engagement vs. long term engagements.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

You can charge it, but that doesn't mean anyone's gonna pay it. Highly depends on your specific market and skillset.

At the very least, it's definitely useful as a "fuck you" price.

[-] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 days ago

Slap on a zero.

Also, minimum billing is in increments of 1 week

[-] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 11 points 5 days ago

Well they'd be asking the AI this lol

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 89 points 6 days ago

Okay, there's one benefit from LLMs.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 44 points 6 days ago

They still ask you why their garbage doesn't work or how to run a PDF.
I'm not even a computer programmer, I do industrial automation!

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

Everything's computer

[-] Damage@feddit.it 9 points 6 days ago

So it's over, isn't it? The nitpickers are here to stay

[-] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

What's a computer?

[-] plyth@feddit.org 7 points 5 days ago

how to run a PDF

Not that stupid. PDF is scriptable.

[-] Damage@feddit.it 7 points 5 days ago

It was plenty stupid in that context

[-] The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world 53 points 6 days ago

I can read this as either: AI allows anyone to code their own stuff.

AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

[-] VerilyFemme 105 points 6 days ago

AI stops tech bros from bothering real programmers

[-] Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 6 days ago

They try to vibe code it, eventually get bored and give up. It's win win (for AI companies and for programmers) in this case.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 days ago

AI is hogging all the million dollar ideas.

At least my million dollar ideas friends wasting AI's time with the useless crap, instead of ruining a perfectly nice meal conversation with me.

Of course, I know it is only buying me a few months. The "quick fix to my AI app" requests are gathering on the horizon.

[-] snowsuit2654 20 points 5 days ago

What are the icons? Some sort of AI code products?

[-] qaz@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Yes. Vibe coding tools and AI companies

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 5 days ago

One of them looks like a butthole, so it must be ai tools

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 17 points 6 days ago

“It’s like Facebook, but for people’s pets!”

[-] vane@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago

Ah yes because we need more apps.

[-] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

But these aren't just any apps, these are shitty half-assed apsps generated from a slurry of unrelated mediocre code scraped from the corners of the web.

I am not looking forward to next year when every new aspect of any service I use online will have an 80% chance to be a half-assed shit slurry.

Today's 65% chance was already time consuming and exhausting.

[-] BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 15 points 6 days ago

I still think no-code tools are better suited for building prototypes without requiring development knowledge in order to prove your idea. LLMs just added a complicated extra-step.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 26 points 6 days ago

I think the point is, the kind of people who have “million dollar ideas” are now using LLMs instead of pestering real programmers.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

~~am i wrong or is this a terrible meme format for what it's trying to say?~~

edit: it was the former

[-] bss03@infosec.pub 5 points 6 days ago

I was initially confused as well, but I do think the meme format matches.

[-] enzo@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 6 days ago

I like it to be honest

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

idk the soldier is supposed to be a negation/protection rather than providing/helping with something.

this seems more appropriate for the mercy meme or something.

[-] marcos@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

Vibe-coding is absolutely protecting real programmers from the constant bombardment of wannabe entrepreneurs that just need a tech person to write their idea.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

oh shit now it makes sense. i misunderstood what it was trying to say.

[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 5 days ago

I’d argue it is protecting programmers. Previously, people would waste programmers’ time with poorly concepted/uncreative app ideas. But now people are going “oh I can do that on my own”, and wasting their own time with AI vibe coding.

[-] squaresinger@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

The old "I have this great idea for an app! If you build it for me, you can have 10% of the profits!".

And then you ask for the idea, and at first they don't want to give it away with your agreement, and in the end it turns out to be either whatsapp of amazon.