Programmers, engineers, and mathematicians who hate AI loved solving puzzles not problems.

Oct 25, 2026 · 12:38 AM UTC

103
208
30
3,908
57,686
RelevantRecentLikes
@romanhelmetguy
Image from Selo (ѱ,ѱ) (@seloresiste)
1
5
148
3,243
I’m literally an engineer and I love AI. “Make me a requirements document template in (company colors) that has (company requirements)” Oh look I just saved 3 hours of silly bullshit.
2
78
1,539
Well, yes, of course we did. Do*
1
80
Prioritizing intellectual achievement over actual human progressseems to be a common ethical shortcoming among academics. It reminds me of the scientists who are opposed to colonizing space, because they think that it's more important to know that any life we find out there wasn't brought there by us than it is to spread life and civilization to as many uninhabited places as we can.
3
105
So solve the AI puzzle then.
55
How the fuck can you hate AI as an engineer
2
53
@romanhelmetguy
🤖 Made with AI
Image from Singularity Memes (@singularitymeme)
1
3
62
2,185
I think it comes from a fundamental misunderstanding of AI. It is almost like the people hating the most have never truly utilized or extracted its true functionality
39
I believe they’re people who love problems, not results.
1
4
367
Probably moreso loved the high status jobs which previously had massive moats due to increasingly absurd and socioeconomic status related hoops.
20
Modern day professional philosophers tbh. They like to sit around and posit and postulate, not actually get anything done. That would mean they stop getting paid and showered in admiration.
2
2
60
2,084
I like to code because I like to build shit. Anything that lets me build shit faster, and fulfill that purpose ultimately makes me happier.
1
113
パズルが好きな人ほど、AIに答えを出させるのは「解く楽しみを取られる」感じがするんだと思う。私も自動化を回すうちに、手を動かす面白さが薄れて戸惑った。
2
164
We loved both. And that was fine.
1
83
Better tools solve harder problems.
3
439
Whether something is a puzzle or a problem depends on your cognitive ability. If a puzzle is too hard or mundane, it stops being fun. A puzzle has to be fun and engaging.
76
Yep 100% pointless false games without any real purpose
136
zachtronics were their endgame and stopped there
80
some people just wanted the puzzle to stay hard
18
Some were deriving status from their professions, which is rapidly evaporating.
72
sudoku culture
31
You are still welcome to solve puzzles.
73
Other people's problems are puzzles, well the good kind are anyway there are a lot of just boring (and often self inflicted) problems out there too. Which of course are problems to the ones who have them but of limited interest to "engineers" in general, for those money helps.
1
80
Amen, that’s it. They were never in for giving somebody else value, but wanted to get paid for solving tricky issues.
39
They love solving previously solved puzzles that someone else taught them, or that they figured out themselves back before corporate smothered their soul, that they get paid well for slowly copying over. Problem solvers love new tools.
8
791
Yes, I know the type, very well.
124
True. They don’t care about how they can help humanity. Just care about stroking their own ego. Terrance tao types. The physiognomy is telling. “Curing cancer? But why would you want to cure cancer if you don’t understand it?”
1
91
We actually hate all software. And if we had draftsmen like back in the day, we'd hate them too.
1
17
1,433
Maybe it was about the puzzles we solved along the way?
115
I have a job where I have to think a lot myself, but AI gives me a relative boost if used correctly.
104
That is a good way to put it.
9
759
I never liked programming *before* AI, as I was never interested in coding up a problem once I figured it out on paper.
176
解谜的人常把问题留在地上
1
136
Apparently the real problem programmers needed solved was enjoying programming.
277
Thats a reasonable assertion. In some cases these tech folks probably haven't seen how you can use various levels of AI assistance, doesn't have to be a 100% hand off.
5
796
Oh, that is good. And accurate.
2
Load more replies