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Reviewing Offshore PRs Is Basically Prompt Engineering With Human Latency
CodeReviews Post #7552, on Dec 16, 2025 in TG

Reviewing Offshore PRs Is Basically Prompt Engineering With Human Latency

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A two-panel meme using the Joey from Friends 'surprised realization' template. In the top panel, Joey (Matt LeBlanc) looks smugly content in a kitchen setting, with the left text: 'Reviewing PRs and communicating requirements with offshore teams..' In the bottom panel, Joey looks shocked and disturbed with wide eyes, with the left text: 'Realizing I'm doing prompt engineering with real people but only getting the results 1/2 days late'. A 'made with mematic' watermark appears in the bottom right. The meme draws a sharp parallel between the iterative, specification-heavy process of managing offshore development teams and the emerging discipline of prompt engineering for LLMs

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick At least with GPT-4 you get hallucinations in seconds instead of waiting 48 hours for a human to misunderstand the same requirements
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    At least with GPT-4 you get hallucinations in seconds instead of waiting 48 hours for a human to misunderstand the same requirements

  2. @RiedleroD 6mo

    two differences: - real people will actually make decent code and get familiar with the codebase over time (assuming you will use the same offshore team) - you can move blame onto a real human, but not exactly do that with an LLM

    1. @RiedleroD 6mo

      also - a real human being gets paid and can afford food and housing with that money instead of shoving that money up some billionaire's ass for him to spend on private jets and child sex trafficking

    2. @tema3210 6mo

      Price difference rigs the equation hard tho

      1. @RiedleroD 6mo

        the price difference will only exist as long as openAI et al are still ok with bleeding money left and right

        1. @tema3210 6mo

          Still not wound not be comparable tho. And also, openai is now just too big to fail

          1. @RiedleroD 6mo

            I'm sure they said that about the banks in 2008 too

            1. @tema3210 6mo

              wasn't really following back then (was a kid) - but now AI bubble, back then housing bubble. It's kinda how capitalism tends to work in modern day

              1. @RiedleroD 6mo

                I mean I was 4 too but yknow, you can just look at contemporary sources

                1. @RiedleroD 6mo

                  or like, talk to your parents

                  1. @tema3210 6mo

                    i heard a story of my friends parents and it was brutal, 100k debt in 2008 was no joke to them.

              2. dev_meme 6mo

                Its not capitalism, its money printing machine via central banks which is opposite of capitalism since its not a free market but either fully gov controlled or almost fully gov controlled institutions

                1. @tema3210 6mo

                  well, the true capitalism is first very cruel system, then the money printing is actually unavoidable: the money aren't valued on their own - they are paper - they are valued based on what they represent, and what is that? thats the key question one should be asking. They used to represent gold, then started representing gov debts. It's in a sense a basis problem, when you really trace where the assigned value of money came from - it's all gold. Where assigned value of gold came is question with answer lost to ages

                2. @chupasaurus 6mo

                  it is, just BS instead of products.

    3. @riggardo 6mo

      Also real humans acutally learn from their errors

      1. @ahmubashshir 6mo

        Do they? The history of mankind begs to differ...

        1. @DerKnerd 6mo

          they can, they don't have to. The problem is rather, some people don't see the same things as errors. I had a chat with a dude who firmly believed hitler was the good guy because he stopped communism

  3. @nyxiereal 6mo

    I'm doing fine just committing fix +845634 -947486 https://github.com/nyxiereal

  4. @mrYakov 6mo

    real peoples(smart ones): make cool abstractions so their code is compact and easy to understand or change llms: makes tons of boilerplate thats stop to fit in their context window

  5. @RiedleroD 6mo

    very funny /s

    1. @luckywanderboy 6mo

      I know /srs

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