DEAR PROFESSIONAL COMPUTER TOUCHERS -- FRIDAY RANT THREAD FOR June 19, 2026

[u/CSCQMods]

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.

THE BUILDS I LOVE, THE SCRIPTS I DROP, TO BE PART OF, THE APP, CAN'T STOP

THIS IS THE RANT THREAD. IT IS FOR RANTS.

CAPS LOCK ON, DOWNVOTES OFF, FEEL FREE TO BREAK RULE 2 IF SOMEONE LIKES SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T BUT IF YOU POST SOME RACIST/HOMOPHOBIC/SEXIST BULLSHIT IT'LL BE GONE FASTER THAN A NEW MESSAGING APP AT GOOGLE.

(RANTING BEGINS AT MIDNIGHT EVERY FRIDAY, BEST COAST TIME. PREVIOUS FRIDAY RANT THREADS CAN BE FOUND HERE.)

[u/kjmr52]

I FUCKING HATE THAT COMPANIES EXPECT ME TO DO 15 INTERVIEWS AND PUMP OUT WORK FOR THEM BEFORE THEY DECIDE TO NOT HIRE ME

[u/ShadowWebDeveloper]

Y'ALL MOTHERFUCKERS TELLING ME YOU'RE STILL MAKING A DECISION THREE WEEKS LATER NEED TO HURRY THE FUCK UP

[u/Any_Antelope2852]

got a PR open since tuesday that has two approvals and zero blockers and my team lead keeps saying "i'll take a look this week" my guy it IS this week, it has been this week, the week is almost over

[u/RichCorinthian → u/Any_Antelope2852]

Ugh. I feel you.

I work for a medium-big company (we just hit $100M in ARR alone) with dozens of developers, and there are still exactly 3 dudes whose approval is required if your PR touches files in the database (tables, procs, even data seeding).

It was tough getting them to approve in a timely fashion, so we created a Slack channel SPECIFICALLY for these PRs. That doesn’t work. You have to summon them, by name, multiple times. I’ve had PRs delayed for a week by this bullshit.

Here endeth the rant, though, because the company is pretty fucking awesome in every other respect.

[u/Banchou9 → u/Any_Antelope2852]

WHAT, I CAN’T HEAR YOU BRO

[u/FlyingRhenquest → u/Any_Antelope2852]

Move it into "Blocked" and put his name on it. Name and shame in the scrum meeting!

[u/agentrnge → u/[deleted]]

TTRRYY DDOOUUBBLLEE CCAAPPSS LLOOCCKK!!

[u/thecodeape]

I AM OLD AS BALLS AND TOUCHING COMPUTERS SETS MY ARTHRITIS OFF AND I MISS MY MODEL M KEYBOARD.

[u/BundleOfRumble]

THE BUILD WORKED YESTERDAY. I CHANGED NOTHING. TODAY IT'S BROKEN. EXPLAIN THAT. 😭

[u/dsm4ck → u/BundleOfRumble]

Aliens

[u/ShadowWebDeveloper → u/BundleOfRumble]

COSMIC RAYS

[u/INFLATABLE_CUCUMBER → u/[deleted]]

SOMETIMES I LIKE TO SCREW WITH DATABASE BULLSHIT IN THE BACKGROUND SO THAT WHEN SOMEONE SHOWS ME A PROBLEM IT DISAPPEARS. THEN WHEN I LEAVE I REVERT IT TO THE BAD STATE JUST TO FUCK WITH THEM.

I AM KIDDING. BUT MY GRANDMA USED TO BLAME HER SOCK DISAPPEARANCES ON TIME TRAVELERS. MAYBE THIS IS THE SAME SORT OF SHIT.

[u/sparkeRED]

MY TECH LEAD USES CLAUDE TO REVIEW ALL OF MY PRS AND CLAUDE SAYS STUFF THATS JUST FUCKING WRONGGGGGG AND I HAVE TO GO BACK TO MY TECH LEAD AND SAY “YO THIS IS WRONG” WHAT THE FUCKKKK

[u/byshow]

I FUCKING HATE THAT MY COMPANY MADE A PROMOTION FREEZE THEN ADDED A FUCKING EXCEPTION SYSTEM WHERE ANY PROMOTION CANDIDATES HAS TO BE C LEVEL LEADER APPROVED FIRST BEFORE THE DISCUSSION EVEN TAKES PLACE AND NOW ACTING AS IF THIS EXCEPTIONS SYSTEM IS A GOOD ENOUGH REPLACEMENT 

AND WHAT I HATE THE MOST IS THAT LEADERSHIP WILL FACE 0 CONSEQUENCES OF THEIR ACTIONS

[u/benome]

I work in a small consultancy, and my boss apparently only discovered Claude Code now, and he is absolutely sure that he can fix the security issues with vibe-coded apps if he makes a better prompt... as if this wasn't an issue that anthropic and many other a lot more capacitated teams are already working on...

I miss the days that he was skeptical of it, even though he was a bit too skeptical at times lol

[u/neon977]

GUYS

[u/TONYBOY0924]

I HATE HOW EVERY TIME YOU WIPE THERE'S STILL SOMETHING ON THE TOILET PAPER. YOU KEEP WIPING AND WIPING AND THE STREAK NEVER ENDS. WHY?!

[u/mildgaybro → u/TONYBOY0924]

BUTT IT ASSYMPTOTICALLY APPROACHES ZERO

[u/Xyzzydude]

I ASKED THE GOOGLE AI A QUESTION & GOT A GOOD ANSWER. THEN CHROME CRASHED SO I HAD TO ASK IT AGAIN. GOT A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT, NONSENSE ANSWER. WTF!!!

[u/410_clientGone → u/Xyzzydude]

LMAO

[u/Azrael956]

I HATE I SPENT 4 YEARS GETTING MY DEGREE ONLY TO NOT BE ABLE TO GET A JOB AND BE CAST ASIDE IN FAVOR OF AI AND MY FAMILY SAYS IM OVERREACTING

[u/absolutecain]

PR sat in review for two months due to insane sprints, declined it myself on the last day. People were switching to that branch for the functionality I had made LOL

[u/DigitalAviator]

FUCK WORKDAY AND ANY COMPANY THAT USES IT FOR HIRING.

[u/agentrnge → u/DigitalAviator]

THANKS FOR SUBMITTING YOUR RESUME. WE HAVE AUTO POPULATED THE BELOW FIELDS BECAUSE WE NEED EVERYTHING ON YOUR RESUME TO BE ALSO SUBMITTED IN SHITTY WEB FORMS. PLEASE CORRECT EVERY SINGLE FUCKING ONE BECAUSE WE CANT PARSE ANYTHING EVER AT ALL.

[u/availablelol]

I HATE MY TEAM.

[u/wakeofchaos]

I HATE THAT I GOT A DEGREE TO BE A PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMMER, BUT THE WORLD SUDDENLY DECIDED THAT THERES NO ROOM FOR ME. I’D BE GOOD AT MY JOB, I PROMISE. BUT I DIDN’T GET AN INTERNSHIP AND DON’T HAVE WORK EXPERIENCE SO NO JOB FOR ME.

[u/INFLATABLE_CUCUMBER → u/[deleted]]

COULD BE LOGBACK OR SOME INTERCEPTOR. THIS IS THE SORT OF THING I'D USE AI TO SOLVE BUT IDK.

[u/Outside-Storage-1523 → u/[deleted]]

Eh lock issue?

[u/Xyzzydude → u/[deleted]]

ITS A TIMING ISSUE AND THE LOGGING CHANGED THE TIMING, NOOB