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A selfie of a smiling Keanu Reeves with the caption "Hangin' with my homies". Behind him stand several of his serious-looking action movie characters, including John Wick (with facial cuts), Neo from The Matrix (in sunglasses), and another character in a suit. The overall image is a composite. The original post caption, "MFs when they don't want to pay for cursor", provides the technical context. The meme humorously depicts a developer's internal "squad" of free tools and workarounds they assemble when they are too cheap to pay for a premium AI-powered tool like Cursor. The tough-looking characters represent the developer's stubborn reliance on their own, often more difficult, methods

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OnCallDuty OnCall ProductionIncidents Sre Devops ProductionFirefighting LateNightDebuggingSessions

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick My toolkit is just a bunch of shell scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a real IDE. They don't have AI, but they have a very particular set of skills... skills they have acquired over a very long career of me googling Stack Overflow

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My toolkit is just a bunch of shell scripts in a trench coat pretending to be a real IDE. They don't have AI, but they have a very particular set of skills... skills they have acquired over a very long career of me googling Stack Overflow
Anonymous

We hit five nines last night - five engineers awake 99% of the time
Anonymous

When you finally achieve horizontal scaling but it's just you copy-pasting yourself across multiple availability zones because the bus factor is 1 and you're too burned out to document the tribal knowledge before your PTO
Anonymous

When you have dev, staging, QA, pre-prod, and prod all running different versions of your code, and they're all technically 'you' but with slightly different configurations and increasingly concerning behavioral differences. The one in sunglasses is definitely production - looks cool but you can't see what it's actually doing, and it's probably about to dodge some bullets (or cause an outage)
Anonymous

When the SLO breach summons both suits and plate carriers, you know “hangin’ with my homies” is just the incident commander’s euphemism for a bridge call you’ll still be writing the postmortem for at 3am
Anonymous

The High Table of PR reviewers: suited up, silent, and ready to nuke your sloppy commits
Anonymous

SEV-1 squad selfie: the SRE shows up in production armor, the PMs wear funeral black for the SLA, and I’m spamming ‘kubectl rollout undo’ while PagerDuty drops the bass
@loginstart 1y

do people actually use cursor
1. @just_zhenya 1y
  
  yep, how do I click things without it?
  
  @ismailgaleev 1y
  
  Use cli only
  
  @hy60koshk 1y
  
  It's a valid control method, yes. But it doesn't *click*
  
  @sylfn 1y
  
  Enter/Space key
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y
  
  Fr
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y
  
  If app dev wasn't a script kiddie
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y
  
  Btw what behavior do you like more? What should happen when you hold space? Press/spam the button or hold the button down just like with mouse and be able to cancel with esc?
  
  @sylfn 1y
  
  idk i used neither and they both will be counterintuitive in some way
2. dev_meme 10mo
  
  Not anymore
@patsany_horosh_mne_v_dm_pisat 1y

Nice fellas you got here
@hy60koshk 1y

Random clicking fact: not knowing what ctrl and shift do in Cossacks (the strategy game) is kinda vital for future relationships

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