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The joke is told from the perspective of an older developer who now vibe codes AI-generated NextJS apps and looks down, with fake wisdom, on his younger brother learning programming the old-school way by building a Java game from scratch.The irony is that the younger one is probably learning deeper fundamentals, while the older one acts superior despite shipping AI slop.

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