Squinting at the Tiny Code Strip Between Five IDE Sidebars

Description

A meme using the still of Ken Jeong (as Mr. Chow in Community/Hangover-era 'tiny piece of paper' template), in a red shirt before a chalkboard, squinting hard at a minuscule scrap of paper held between his fingers. Top caption: 'Me trying to see the actual code'. Bottom caption: 'with sidebars showing Claude Code, terminal, explorer, git, another coding agent...'. An imgflip.com watermark is visible. The meme mocks the modern AI-era IDE layout where editor real estate is devoured by panels - AI agent chats, terminals, file explorers, git views - leaving a sliver of actual source code visible

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Ide AIAssistants ToolingOverload AITools DeveloperTooling DevExperience Vscode DeveloperErgonomics DeveloperHumor

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick We spent two decades arguing 80 vs 120 column line limits, then solved it by shrinking the editor to 40 columns so the agents could watch us work

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

We spent two decades arguing 80 vs 120 column line limits, then solved it by shrinking the editor to 40 columns so the agents could watch us work
Anonymous

The code is now a one-pixel separator between the tools hired to write it.
@dzek69 2mo

on a tiny 13" laptop the company provides, with 125% scaling
@ulanov_show 2mo

see actual code? why tho?
@Dark_Embrace 2mo

Code should not be accessable to a coder. It is a security threat. Most bugs in history were produced by a coder. Let AI do it's memory safe Rust. This actually improved our security incidents by 1500%.
1. @apBUS_amp_K 2mo
  
  So you now have 16x more? Very effective, a junior team wouldn't be as successful
@b7sum 2mo

visual studio lore
@Algoinde 2mo

https://fixupx.com/Vrklvch/status/2042504560103616651 "All that's left of programming today"
1. @ddamiryh 2mo
  
  If the code doesn't comfortably fit in the remaining space, it's too complicated
@TheFloofyFloof 2mo

Me with an ultrawide and 250 character width files