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Brain at 3AM: When Did the 'Index Starts at 0' Memes Disappear?
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The four-panel 'brain won't let you sleep' comic by @HannahHillam (Buzzfeed watermark, 'made with mematic'). Panel 1: a cartoon brain asks 'Are you going to sleep?'. Panel 2: a person in bed replies 'Yes I am. Now shut up.'. Panel 3: the brain asks 'When was the last time you saw "index starts at 0" meme?'. Panel 4: the person lies wide awake in the dark with bulging white eyes. A meta-meme observing that the once-ubiquitous beginner programming joke about zero-based array indexing has quietly vanished from feeds - implying dev meme culture itself has moved on (mostly to AI jokes), which is genuinely unsettling to contemplate at 3am
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The 'index starts at 0' meme didn't die - it just got garbage-collected once the last reference to pre-LLM humor went out of scope
They still exist; you just started looking at position 1.
I hope they're gone for good Comment deleted
«index start at 0» memes were replaced with «couldn’t find ; i’ve missed» memes Comment deleted
0th time seeing this meme ngl Comment deleted
AI killed thouse, as vibe coders dont even know what an array is Comment deleted
Ass vibecoders* Comment deleted
Jokes aside, a friend of mine recently turned out to be making "automated tools" for smaller local businesses. These were ai chat bots for whatsapp and similar. He used n8n building blocks for that. After one of those broke, he asked me if I knew what is JSON and what is response BODY exactly, because in those blocks he was just writing in plain english that some data would come here and ai needs to give him another data on the way out. That day I realized. We're sooo screwed. 😒 Comment deleted
Depends on who do you mean by "we", as for real devs, vibe coders not knowing a shit means that we are at least worth something at the end of it all Comment deleted
The story is fake because why would he ask someone about json if he can ask llm. Comment deleted
No luck there, all advises from it were too complicated for them to understand and apply. He's literally looking at {, [, : and 0 braincells activate, like 0 idea what is this and why is it here Comment deleted
Strangely enough they don't think of it. I had people generate HTML then ask me how to display it Comment deleted
i've had may boss ask for ftp info so he can let claud upload it to the hosting and make changes if needed 🥲 Comment deleted
Clearly index starts at 1, because position 0 is reserved for the sign Comment deleted
Hah! I tricked you! The machine is little endian Comment deleted