this post was submitted on 30 Mar 2026
146 points (98.7% liked)

Programmer Humor

30679 readers
1419 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 38 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old

lol I’m about to kill my copilot subscription. Why have baby autocomplete when you have big daddy Claude now? I don’t even type anything anymore. The whole point of agentic swe is you don’t code by hand. If the ai does something wrong correct it so it doesn’t happen again.

[–] ArseAssassin@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 hours ago

[vibe coding intensifies]

[–] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 hours ago

Worst sorting algorithm ever.

[–] InvalidName2@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

At least their status bars are, presumably, somewhat honest. It's pretty common for the status server being used to track various Lemmy instances to show all green even when the site has clearly been down several hours or even for days.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Probably pings the servers instead of checking web server works

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 77 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Meanwhile, over at Codeberg: https://status.codeberg.org/

They achieve all of this using 100% open-source infrastructure. If I remember correctly, it's all running on Codeberg-owned hardware as well, not some rented servers.

https://codeberg.org/about

[–] sznowicki@lemmy.world 53 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

They were down for like entire day once because they moved that server to a new location by train. In a backpack.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 30 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I am disappointed. A few servers have been moved via train and stayed online. Codeberg should do better.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 14 points 6 hours ago

A company at which I once worked built a functioning server into the frame of a motorcycle. It was after I left, so I'm not sure of the details, including whether it had to be plugged in; but regardless, they called it "the world's fastest server!" and I think that's pretty funny.

[–] NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 hours ago

Lol, awesome.

Annoyingly I noticed that the status page only shows the past 22 minutes to 1 hour for the primary services. I have no idea why, and there doesn't seem to be a way to look further back. But the badge says 99.45% uptime over the last 14 days, so that's probably right.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

To be fair the number of users they serve is probably orders of magnitudes lower.

To be fair MS makes orders of magnitude more money and has the benefit of operations at scale. Whereas codeberg's operational budget for 2025 was 100k euro and they still need to deal with DDoS and bot scraping. They also were running off a single server up until sept'25 when they had two donated hardware services which are now hooked up to make a 3 node ceph cluster.

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 4 points 6 hours ago

Tbf that only shows the past 14 days instead of past 30, but still

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 25 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

We're watching the old internet fall apart.

[–] plateee@piefed.social 19 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

We are Flowers for Algernoning our technology.

If I use my phone (not android Auto), I can no longer say, "Navigate to ". It flat out does not work.

Navigate to Local Bakery Xyz.

I'm sorry I can't do that.

(It tries to open the non-existent app for the local bakery).

If I'm in the car that has android auto, it refuses to let me type while in drive (fair enough) and it recognizes the "Navigate to..." Instructions, but if I click on the Maps nav bar for voice and say my destination (it literally says, no text while driving speak your destination)... It tries to open the app.

This shit used to work, it's getting actively dumber.

This morning I got fed up and asked,

"Can I use you to navigate somewhere?"

Sure! Where would you like to go?

"Dutch Bros"

(Opens the Dutch Bros app)

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It’s like all companies forgot that reliability is a core feature…

[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 1 points 38 minutes ago

"Users will completely understand the increased outages if we just eliminate the point-and-click UI that we've spent the last 30+ years getting them used to and instead give them a chat bot that they have to repeatedly type detailed instructions to for marginal results at best."

-- Vibe CEO's Everywhere

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 15 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

It never occurred to me before now but from here on out, there will probably always be some old part of the internet, crumbling and sparse, moldering and broken, populated by far fewer denizens than it was designed for.

I wonder if that'll just be the ever-fading "old folks" internet.

[–] ascend@lemmy.radio 8 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh sure, there will always be museums and monuments with little slices of the internet that was, but for the most part, the urge to repurpose old resources to new endeavors means that some parts of the internet will always fade away. I don't know if we'll ever start preserving it perfectly but we certainly aren't there yet.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] BasicallyHedgehog@feddit.uk 16 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ offers a slightly more honest version with aggregate numbers

[–] OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

90% uptime is abysmal

Any other company would be asked refunds from most clients

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 5 points 4 hours ago

LMAO 1 nine of reliability.

[–] obvs@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I’m colorblind, but I’m curious to know what is being represented here.

[–] queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 35 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

Server / service downtime. For a well managed company, you would expect these to be almost uniformly green, meaning that all servers are responding correctly almost all of the time.

Not being able to keep servers running is something that typically happens to smaller companies that grow too fast for them to manage. Established companies are (or, IMO, should be...) expected to have near perfect (>99.99%) uptime, and this is indicative of some expertise loss for the company broadly.

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 16 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

99.99%

TBF, no, established companies tend to have something between 99.9% and 99.99% of uptime. It only increases if the company is explicitly focused on it, at a large cost that usually needs to be paid by some customer.

But Github pretends to be one of those companies that focus on uptime. And it's also less than 99% right now. So yeah, the main point stands.

Yeah that's fair. It's part of the advertising in some sectors, but not all. A lot of the companies I've bought products from tend to advertise their uptime, and that's the type of company I think about when I think about uptime stats. However, a lot of the companies I've sold products to tended to not talk about it, and their uptime was often in the 2 nines to 3 nines, if not a lot worse. Somehow they still managed to keep going lol. Some of them anyway.

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 hours ago

Thanks. I was thinking it was something biological, or some sort of light spectrum and was getting confused.

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world -2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

*yeah, not yea or nay. Do people no longer attend school?

[–] Hominine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Cocksure. Look it up.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Two 9’s, the pinnacle of reliability.

[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Five 9s with an 8 in front.

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 2 points 5 hours ago

"Lets buy shit, then fire everyone, and balk when it fails"

"Brilliant gambit sir"

[–] UnfairUtan@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

Gitlab is pretty much the same

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works -1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody says "yea". Unless they're voting. Or talking about the size of something.

[–] macaw_dean_settle@lemmy.world -1 points 2 hours ago

You are correct. It is yeah, not yea or nay. It isn't a vote. Most people are stupid.