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[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For you it was an event. For vibe coders everywhere, it was tuesday.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"just tell it to fix the errors!"

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

There used to be a joke about how, on average, programmers made a million before reaching 26 years of age.

Bugs, not dollars.

Vibe coders and ai: hold my monster energy drink...

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I want this image to show up under failed compilations. Like this

~~> Segmentation fault (core dumped)~~

edit: I think that's a runtime error actually, instead

fatal error: iostream: No such file

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Youre gonna need a terminal written in HTML

[–] Zykino@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

Sixel or the kitty image protocol can do it high res. There are also some low res options

[–] python@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Your momma is such a bad programmer, she gets compiler errors when writing Javascript

[–] enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago

cargo-mommy is there to make it humiliating in different way

[–] SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

This is why god gave us -fpermissive

[–] Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

if you're moaning about compiler errors, you have no idea how shitty your buggy code will be when it runs

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago

Code humiliation kink

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

My compiler loves lettuce.