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rvz 6 hours ago

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QuaternionsBhop 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Jokes require mutual context. You failed to create a joke because you did not ensure the prerequisites were met.

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rvz 5 hours ago | parent [-]

> Jokes require mutual context.

The article itself is the context. Even the chatbots: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini 'understand' the joke in the comment.

Go ahead and ask them.

> You failed to create a joke because you did not ensure the prerequisites were met.

The prerequisites was for you to read the article first.

The joke:

"Now Claude, rewrite Claude Code from TypeScript to Rust. Make absolutely zero mistakes."

You: ???

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minimaxir 3 hours ago | parent [-]

As steveklabnik noted above, Hacker News does not have a meme-y culture. Just because you made a joke doesn't mean it's inherently immune to criticism, especially when using the lowest-effort, most-overdone meme around agentic development adds nothing to the discussion. Get new material.

	▲	rvz 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> As steveklabnik noted above, Hacker News does not have a meme-y culture. For this one, yes it does. Go search this one up yourself. [0] Literally everyone in the comments in [0] and even the author of this post acknowledges the joke except for you two. It. Is. A. Joke. Calm down. > Just because you made a joke doesn't mean it's inherently immune to criticism No one is arguing that. It's OK that you won't admit that you didn't get it either. > especially when using the lowest-effort, most-overdone meme around agentic development adds nothing to the discussion. Get new material. You're being over-dramatic. Why is that you can't take a simple joke? Surely you've never joked on this site before. [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...