Reddit Meme: Engineers Are Now Just 'Condoms' Between LLMs and Products
oran_ge · x · 2026-07-30
The Reddit community recently discussed the evolving role of engineers in the AI era, with a viral quip suggesting that engineers are now essentially the "condoms" between large language models and the final product.
This reflects a wave of developer self-deprecation and industry reflection on how their work boundaries are blurring—reducing them to a mere fault-tolerance and protective layer—as AI coding tools become ubiquitous.
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