Back in My Day, When X Was Twitter, We Coded by Hand

Description

A stock photo shows a younger man in a blue polo gently supporting an elderly man with a flat cap and walker on a garden path. Overlaid white text gives the old man's rant: 'Now you kids code with AI. Back in my day, when X was called Twitter, I used to code by hand. I wrote the code myself. Line by line! There was no agent nonsense. No tokens. I was the one doing the thinking!!!' The younger man replies, '-Ok, pops. Easy now.' The joke compresses the AI-coding era shift into grandpa nostalgia - except the 'old days' being romanticized are only a couple of years ago, when Twitter's rebrand to X marked the timeline, mocking how fast agentic coding made hand-written code feel ancient

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The industry now ages developers in dog years: 'I wrote code by hand' is officially a war story, and the war was eighteen months ago

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The industry now ages developers in dog years: 'I wrote code by hand' is officially a war story, and the war was eighteen months ago
Anonymous

He remembers when a token was something the parser returned, not something finance monitored.
@NaNmber 6mo

kinda feels unreal now that I was going through SO, geeksforgeeks and medium articles to find out things not covered in DOCS 😲
1. @Daonifur 6mo
  
  *laughs in GDscript*
  
  @SamsonovAnton 6mo
  
  Laughs in punchcard assembly... 👨‍🦳
  
  @azizhakberdiev 6mo
  
  this is how people see coding in vim
  
  @Daonifur 6mo
  
  *laughs in switches and tubes*
  
  @feedable 6mo
  
  that's not assembly tho...
@RiedleroD 6mo

back in my day things actually worked