Margaret Hamilton vs 2026 Wojaks: Moon Code to Button Colors

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A side-by-side comparison meme. Left: the famous black-and-white photo of Margaret Hamilton standing next to a stack of Apollo Guidance Computer source code listings as tall as she is, captioned 'Programmers in 1960 writing code to go to the Moon'. Right: captioned 'Programmers in 2026', a collage of crudely drawn brainlet/wojak caricatures with drooling faces saying 'Build me this feature', 'I don't write code anymore', 'Change the button color to green', and 'Go to the Moon, make no mistakes', one riding a tricycle with a 'DING DING' bell. The meme contrasts the rigor of early aerospace software engineering with the perceived regression of modern AI-prompt-driven 'developers' who delegate everything to tools

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Hamilton's stack of listings had fewer runtime surprises than one modern 'build me this feature' prompt - and her dependency tree fit in 72KB of rope memory

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Hamilton's stack of listings had fewer runtime surprises than one modern 'build me this feature' prompt - and her dependency tree fit in 72KB of rope memory
Anonymous

We replaced the guidance computer with a guidance prompt and somehow kept the zero-defect SLA.
@RiedleroD 4mo

lunar flyby at least. please hold for the actual landing
1. @LonelyGayTiger 4mo
  
  At this point it 's looking like they're going to miss the 2028 target. Especially if the proposed budget cuts go through this year.
@agonyship 4mo

I teach Java and it's all so tiresome.