[joaquincabezas]

when someone behaves in a very predictable way I use to say "I could code you in C!". Well, turns out is Python!

[shagie]

Long ago... Think Geek T-shirt: "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script"

https://web.archive.org/web/20081204045017/http://www.thinkg...

[palmotea]

> Long ago... Think Geek T-shirt: "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script"

Whoever bought that shirt could probably use some social skills coaching. It's not a good idea to wear a shirt that indiscriminately broadcasts contempt in all directions. I get the purchasers probably confused it for humor, but there's an important difference between humor that works on a viewer TV show and and humor embedded in the interaction of you with another real person.

I had this though recently at Walmart, after seeing the third such shirt (a visual pun meaning "fuck you"). Geeks often have the same attitude problems.

[qsort]

There's the old joke that many people who fear they could be replaced by AI are in fact too self-aggrandizing, they could be replaced by a 12-line python script.

If you want to get a bit meaner, you could profitably replace some people with the empty python script.

[emp17344]

Weirdly misanthropic. Jobs exist for a reason - people who could be replaced by a python script already have been.

[deadbabe]

Some people could be replaced with nothing at all.

[bgwalter]

I remember the joke differently. I heard it first way before the "AI" craze from an Italian philosopher (the original program must have been recorded in the 1980s and then rebroadcast):

"People who think they can be replaced by AI will be replaced."

In other words, the cheerleaders are so dumb that they probably could be replaced.

[atoav]

If someone pissed off our sysadmin he would say something among the lines of: "Quiet, you are aware I could replace you with a simple script?"