40 Hilarious Programming Memes That Prove Debugging Is A Universal Struggle (New Pics)

"I fixed that bugs, but two more came along"

A programmer is "almost finished" most of the time.

This!

Exactly! I've always wondered why they make them this way. Well, I know why: it's to make it cute for the parents. The best ones I've seen have the animals (or whatever) hanging horizontally, flying facedown above the baby.

I feel that...why do parents do that?

#efficient

Is this what goes for coding these days?

2.7.123.45, when you dont even know what you did, but it worked?

vymdt.01.2025.10.26.0032 The version (v) is always a whole number and only increments when the build is no longer backwards compatible with the previous build. The build (ymdt) is the date and 24h time. The preceding prefix informs the format. This way the date of the release and its compatibility with previous releases is clear and obvious. Additionally, the format provides an ideal sort in a folder view when you have zipped copies of multiple versions. This is something I came up with and I call it a version ID, since the base version number is contained within it. I have used this for many years. Feel free to adopt it.

This is actually a really good explanation for versioning. We had a document at my last company explaining when to bump each number, with about a paragraph under each one. This is much simpler, and no less true!

Management (and especially upper management) is the only real use case for LLM.

"Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do..."

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No way I let pandaDeliveryFromOrbit.com expire. It will work soon!

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My daughter recently graduated with a CS degree and was desperately trying to find an entry level job in her field. It took a few months, but she finally found one and is reasonably happy with the job. Thank goodness - it's really tough out there for what was once a sure-fire way to have a good career!

A good vacation is when I come back to work and need at least a day or two to remember what it is that I do for a living.

The tech giants think we should just relinquish our IP rights. Does that mean the AI they create with it will be a public good available to everyone? No. They want to privatize it and don't you dare steal their IP.

Good luck!

If you have to do the task every day, in 2 weeks you saved 50 minutes with 30 minited of coding.

A question I ask myself at least twice a month: Will I need to do this enough times to justify automating it? And when your programmer gets good enough to usually answer correctly, promote them to intermediate.

*pondering* Wheels don't have to be circular...

But, but, it's more fun creating solutions than trying to understand someone else's solution!

it_will.pas

"Surprise, motherf*cker"

Yes, but if there are bits I don't personally understand then I like to put in a comment to the source. That succinctly documents what problem I was trying to solve, what the alternative solutions were, and usually at least roughly how the code in question works.

That's kind of how Microsoft started

Family business was programming, specifically modifying and supporting a piece of corporate software my uncle had built, Inventory, shipping, logistics, accounting type of deal, the backbone of keeping companies running, which was built with Visual FoxPro. Very expansive, very capable, but required training to use effectively. I had just moved down to Texas, was 20 years old, and maybe 2 months into learning programming, and the system had just been sold to a new client, who asked for tooltips to be added to.....everything. This wasn't something built into the system, nor was it something that VFP even allowed to integrate directly. They said they needed these tooltips to be implemented in a month, name the price they'll pay it. My uncle said $50,000, they said get it done. I don't know why exactly, but my uncle got it in his head that Dreamweaver was the way to tie these tooltips in, except none of us had ever used it....and we beat our heads against it for like 3 weeks..continued

Lol me at work today. But now my css is scss and full of helpful (probably useless and redundant) variables! 😍

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Progress!

Is his brother Phil Collins? Sussudio!

RIP? It's still around??

I had a physical calendar thst dtsrted on Mondays. A three day weekend looks longer all in a row.

Starting weeks on Sunday is as weird as starting arrays from zero. Sunday is 0, Monday is 1. It can't be the other way around because you can't add 1 to 1 and get 0.

I'd like a magnetic calendar to stick on the freezer, but they all seem to start on a Sunday. Americans really can't cope with "dates" can they? 😉🥄🥄🥄

Weirder.

Oh, please. This should be an APL one-liner. Maybe: life ← {⊃1 ⍵ ∨.∧ 3 4 = +/ +⌿ ¯1 0 1 ∘.⊖ ¯1 0 1 ⌽¨ ⊂⍵}

Regex is awesome. Very useful.

This was my CS20 teacher. Comment every line, he says. No, that's dumb. Comment broad steps and/or when something in unclear. You will thank yourself when you come back to this code in 4 months or 10 years.

"Sure"

Not valid. More likely (but less catchy): "The unit test was failing, so I updated the expected value," when the test is failing due to an actual regression. Had one person do that. She wasn't even a junior. She was a highly-paid contractor, actually.

Oh god.... I was a 2nd generation programmer. I remember my mom explaining IBM assembler code to me whilst she was doing her homework.