In the AI coding era, hand-renaming a variable is how devs 'feel something'
irombie · x · 2026-11-07
A viral dev joke capturing the AI-coding era: "renamed a variable by hand today just to feel something."
It pokes fun at how rarely programmers now write code themselves now that AI coding assistants handle most of the work — even manually renaming a variable has become a nostalgic rarity.