Dev turns daily routine into a recursive function: update tracker, discuss, repeat
kuanhoong · x · 2026-09-18
A lighthearted AI-culture post: a developer jokes that instead of a daily routine, they now run a recursive function — update the tracker → discuss the tracker → update the tracker again. The attached screenshot shows the ever-growing tracker making "excellent progress."
It pokes fun at a common pattern in AI-assisted development: maintaining the task tracker for your coding agent gradually becomes the main job itself.
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