Developer Motivation: Passion vs. Paycheck

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A two-panel meme contrasting a developer's experience based on project enjoyment. The top panel, captioned 'Working on a project you don't enjoy,' depicts a small, stressed programmer overwhelmed by a giant, muscular figure labeled 'The project.' The bottom panel, captioned 'Working on a project you enjoy,' reverses the roles: the programmer is now the giant, muscular figure, confidently looming over a tiny, intimidated 'project.' The meme humorously illustrates the profound impact of passion on a developer's sense of empowerment and control. Uninteresting work feels like an oppressive burden, while engaging work makes the developer feel dominant and in their element, capable of tackling any challenge

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The top panel is deploying a legacy JSP application on WebSphere. The bottom panel is writing a CLI tool in Rust for personal use

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The top panel is deploying a legacy JSP application on WebSphere. The bottom panel is writing a CLI tool in Rust for personal use
Anonymous

Jarvis optimizes flight trajectories, Skynet optimizes human extinction, and Copilot mostly optimizes how many ‘// TODO: handle edge cases’ comments it can slip past code review
Anonymous

GitHub Copilot: The AI that confidently suggests `// TODO: implement this later` with the same enthusiasm it recommends importing 37 unused libraries, yet somehow we trust it more than our own code reviews because at least it doesn't judge our variable naming choices
Anonymous

After years of fearing AGI would recursively self-improve into an unstoppable superintelligence, we got GitHub Copilot suggesting 'function add(a, b) { return a + b; }' for the 47th time this week. Turns out the real threat wasn't Skynet achieving consciousness - it was Copilot achieving just enough consciousness to autocomplete your variable names wrong but with supreme confidence
Anonymous

AI in dev: leadership wants JARVIS, security braces for Skynet, and production gets Copilot - confidently autocompleting the N+1 query that becomes next quarter’s OKR
Anonymous

Skynet eradicates humanity, Jarvis architects arc reactors - Copilot confidently imports non-existent modules
Anonymous

Skynet optimizes for domination; Copilot optimizes for compiling while quietly sneaking an N+1 query, a global mutable singleton, and a new transitive dependency into prod
@nuntikov 5y

This whole shitstorm around copilot is hilarious. Guys like fireship make it seem like GitHub Copilot is something new. But the AI code autocompletion thing already existed long before copilot (e.g. kite, tabine), and no one screamed bloody murder "developers are being replaced" until now.
1. @mmddvg 5y
  
  good point
2. dev_meme 5y
  
  But no-one actually said it
3. dev_meme 5y
  
  And I would like to attach this tweet into discussion
4. Deleted Account 5y
  
  Best statement. 👍🏻
@saniel42 5y

Is it even good for something that isn't basic web stuff?
@mvolfik 5y

And slap MIT-like license atop