XKCD-Style Comic About Staying Up Late to Fix AI Agent's Slightly Wrong Output

Description

A black and white XKCD-style stick figure comic in two panels. In the first panel, a voice from off-screen (presumably from bed) asks 'ARE YOU COMING TO BED?' and the stick figure at a computer desk responds 'I CAN'T. THIS IS IMPORTANT.' The voice asks 'WHAT?' and the figure replies 'MY AI AGENT PRODUCED SOMETHING SLIGHTLY WRONG.' The stick figure is drawn in the classic XKCD minimalist style, sitting at a desk with a monitor. The comic perfectly captures the developer compulsion to manually fix AI-generated output that is 95% correct but has that one infuriating detail that's off - often spending more time fixing it than writing it from scratch would have taken

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The AI got it 98% right, which means you'll spend 200% of the time you saved hunting down the 2% it hallucinated into existence

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The AI got it 98% right, which means you'll spend 200% of the time you saved hunting down the 2% it hallucinated into existence
@dwtexe 5mo

Every day for the last year (doing personal projects)
1. @BEST8OY 5mo
  
  It's natural It produces wrong code You yourself or AI fixes it, your brain gets rewarded the same process repeats Now you're an addict Vibe coding is an addiction.
  
  @dwtexe 5mo
  
  Nope even tho its a personal project I have deadlines. Debugging ai slop gives me pain I am disgusted the sight of it
  
  @dwtexe 5mo
  
  But if you ask me to write the code by my hand I know very well that I am a rusty now
@dwtexe 5mo

Anyway I hope I can finish the project this month so I can learn golang and dont touch any ai for a while
@blue_bonsai 5mo

Hahahah guys "wong" sounds like "wong".
@blue_bonsai 5mo

Wrong
@blue_bonsai 5mo

I meant to say wrong not wong in the first wong bruh
@Daonifur 5mo

Imagine vibe coding in Flash
@blue_bonsai 5mo

Dingleberries are my favourite type of berries.
1. @Daonifur 5mo
  
  How is this related?