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The programmer.
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Four years ago, science classified 10 known variants of this animal,
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and the taxonomy held up pretty well until an asteroid hit in 2023 and nearly wiped them off the Earth.
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Since then, the habitat has changed.
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9 out of 10 developers are now using AI to write their code, which means the one who doesn't is now endangered.
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Meanwhile, several new species have emerged recently, and in order to understand them,
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we need stereotypes, which experts still estimate are about 99 % accurate about 12 % of the time.
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In today's video, we'll look at the seven programmer stereotypes of 2026 to help you find out which one you've mutated into.
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First up, we have the non -technical vibe coder.
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This specimen doesn't know what a for loop is, and he doesn't really care.
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He describes himself as a founder
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and his entire tech stack is a chat window with a prompt that says it's still not working.
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He launches a SaaS on Tuesday, it gets hacked on Wednesday because the API keys are hard -coded on the front end,
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and on Thursday, he posts a thread about resilience.
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His natural predator is Edsger Dykstra, and his natural habitat is a screenshot of monthly recurring revenue
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that was also generated by AI because he doesn't know how to use dev tools.
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Evolutionary biologists have traced his lineage directly back to the boot camp programmer who normalized not understanding computer science fundamentals.
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Next, the closest living relative to the non -technical vibe coder is the prompt casino degenerate.
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This guy is technical, but only if it's easier than LeetCode Medium.
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He pulls the lever the agent spins, and about 60 % of the time,
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he gets a tasty piece of cheese he can make a PR out of.
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He spends $400 per month of his own money on coding agents
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because his company just set a $29 per month employee limit after agentic abuse.
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When the code is good, it's because he's a prompt engineer, and when it's bad, it's because Opus is nerfed.
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His family left him after
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he cashed out the kid's 529 college plans to give his agent full API access to his CalShe account,
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but that's okay because the latency with local voice models is low enough that it feels real.
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Next, the apex predator of the prompt casino degenerate, the swarm lord, who biologists classify as eusocial.
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This guy knows how to code and enjoy it, but he's gaslit himself into thinking he's never been more productive.
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He runs 12 agents in parallel from his phone, and his favorite thing to do while his agents work is tell you
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that he runs 12 agents in parallel from his phone.
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He hasn't looked at a line of code in years, but he has strong opinions about which model has the best taste.
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His natural predator is uptime, and his mating call is saying that writing software is a solved problem.
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The Swarmlord feasts on our next variant, the Slop Maintainer.
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This guy wrote a date formatting library in 2019 that now has 40 million weekly downloads and is critical web infrastructure.
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He gets hundreds of PRs per month that are each co -authored by Claude,
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and in October, he gets 10 ,000 more from junior devs in Bangalore, hoping to get a free t -shirt.
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He survives on the $95 he gets from his GitHub sponsors every month, while he watches the famous library maintainers make millions getting acquired by Shopify.
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His natural predator is a North Korean maintainer offering to help, and his mating call is threatening to archive the repo every other month.
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The maintainer never found out who sent those 10 ,000 PRs, but the biologists have, and they're calling him the unemployed junior.
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His whole life, he did everything right.
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Good grades, studied leak code, didn't kiss any girls, and he's been rejected by every AI screener that's come across his resume.
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He graduated in 2024, which was about six months after the last entry -level job on earth was filled.
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His GitHub contribution graph is a solid wall of green made entirely of readme typo fixes and Python projects from school.
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His natural habitat is a Discord server, and his natural predator is the non -technical vibe coder who can build everything he can,
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just with a marketing degree.
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His mating call is asking if anybody is hiring, and the guy who keeps saying no is our next specimen, the old jaded developer.
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This guy is in his mid -30s.
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He learned Grunt, then Gulp, then Webpack.
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He got excited for jQuery, then
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Angular, then React.
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He even stuck around for Hooks and Next .js, but now he's old, tired, and couldn't care less about benchmarks.
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He's not going to learn your harness, he's not going to read your system prompt, and he's not going to run 12 of anything.
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The full extent of his AI usage is hitting
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Tab and GitHub Copilot, which he's gotten for free since 2023 because he contributed to Gatsby back in the day.
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He doesn't know there's a chat window in his IDE, he misses 100 seconds videos, and when co -pilots suggest something wrong,
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he just deletes it by hand like a monk raking gravel.
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He's not anti -AI, he just has a parent -teacher conference at 4pm, and is coaching his third graders basketball at 7.
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But you know who is anti -AI?
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Our final specimen, the purist.
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This man is the best in us, he's noble, brave, handsome, and has 20 years of experience in a world that no longer exists.
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He hasn't had a job since MCP was released, which by the way he thinks is just Korba with worse security.
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When he did have a job, he wrote every line by hand and would gladly tell you the big O of any slop you whipped up.
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His favorite books are Introduction to Algorithms and The Pragmatic Programmer,
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and nowadays he can be found in his natural habitat on Hacker News talking about the craft of writing software.
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Biologists estimate that there are fewer than 10 ,000 of these left in the wild, and their numbers are dwindling by the day.
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But no matter which stereotype you identify as, you need to check out Serp API, the sponsor of today's video.
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It's all sourced from public pages and their own search index, so your agents are always working with data that's already public.
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And they just launched
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it can grab the whole thing as structured JSON or as clean markdown that won't nuke your context window.
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You can add it to Cloud Code, Cursor, and Codex through their MCP server, and SERP API is already used by companies like NVIDIA and Perplexity,
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because even AI search engines need a real search engine to try it out for free with this QR code
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or at the link below.
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Thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one.
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Woordenschat en spreektips bij deze les
Deze spreekles is gebaseerd op de video “The last real programmers are dying out..”. Deze woorden komen het vaakst terug: agent, code, natural, Api, month. Deze video bevat 78 zinnen en 1199 woorden om na te spreken. Het gesproken deel duurt 5:55. De spreker praat snel, ongeveer 203 woorden per minuut, dus reken op verbonden en ingeslikte klanken. Slechts 77% van de woorden hoort bij de 3.000 meest gebruikte Engelse woorden, dus de woordenschat is pittig.
Belangrijke woorden in deze video
15 woorden uit de video die het leren waard zijn, met uitspraak en betekenis:
| Woord | Uitspraak | Betekenis |
|---|---|---|
| prompt werkwoord | /pɹɑmpt/ | aansporen, aanmoedigen |
| predator zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɹɛd.ə.tɚ/ | roofdier n roofvis, predator |
| programmer zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/ | programmeur |
| vibe zelfstandig naamwoord | /vaɪb/ | vibraties |
| specimen zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈspɛsɪmɪn/ | voorbeeld |
| server zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈsɝvɚ/ | server |
| estimate zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɛs.tɪ.mət/ | schatting |
| parallel bijvoeglijk naamwoord | /ˈpæ.ɹəˌlɛl/ | evenwijdig, parallel |
| developer zelfstandig naamwoord | /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/ | ontwikkelaar, ontwerper |
| casino zelfstandig naamwoord | /kəˈsiːnəʊ/ | casino, speelhuis |
| sponsor zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈspɒn.səː/ | sponsor |
| variant zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈvæɹi.ənt/ | variant |
| meanwhile bijwoord | /ˈmiːnwaɪl/ | intussen, ondertussen |
| relative zelfstandig naamwoord | /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/ | familielid, bloedverwant |
| extent zelfstandig naamwoord | /ɪkˈstɛnt/ | bereik, mate |
Phrasal verbs die je zult horen
| Woord | Betekenis |
|---|---|
| find out werkwoord | ontdekken, onderzoeken |
| check out werkwoord | onderzoeken |
| come across werkwoord | overkomen |
Grammatica in deze video
De structuren die de spreker het meest gebruikt, met de exacte woorden uit de video:
| Structuur | In de video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + voltooid deelwoord — iets uit het verleden dat nu nog telt | has changed · have emerged · you've mutated |
| Lijdende vorm be + voltooid deelwoord — het gaat om wat er gebeurt, niet om wie het doet | is now endangered · was also generated · is nerfed |
| Betrekkelijke bijzinnen who / which + zin — extra informatie over een persoon of ding | code, which means · guy who keeps |
Uitspraak om op te letten
De spreker gebruikt 14 samentrekkingen en verkorte vormen, zoals doesn't, hasn't, couldn't. Spreek ze kort uit, zoals je ze hoort.
- De “th”-klanken: thread /ˈθɹɛd/, threaten /ˈθɹɛt.n̩/
- De klanken “sh” en “zh”: contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, evolutionary /ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i/, screenshot /ˈskriːn.ʃɑt/, benchmark /ˈbɛn(t)ʃmɑːk/
- Lange woorden — let op de klemtoon: developer /dɪˈvɛləpɚ/, infrastructure /ˈɪnfɹəˌstɹʌkt͡ʃə/, contribution /ˌkɑntɹɪˈbjuʃən/, fundamental /ˌfʌn.dəˈmɛn.təl/, evolutionary /ˌiː.vəˈluː.ʃən.ɛɹ.i/
Klanken die Nederlandstaligen lastig vinden:
- Stemhebbende eindmedeklinker — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ niet verscherpen: vibe /vaɪb/, relative /ˈɹɛl.ə.tɪv/, thread /ˈθɹɛd/, solve /sɒlv/, brave /bɹeɪv/
- /æ/ — opener dan de Nederlandse “e”: habitat /ˈhæb.ɪ.tæt/, programmer /ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/, parallel /ˈpæ.ɹəˌlɛl/, variant /ˈvæɹi.ənt/, format /ˈfɔːɹ.mæt/
- /g/ — een harde plofklank, geen Nederlandse “g”: programmer /ˈpɹoʊɡɹæmɚ/, graph /ɡɹæf/, gravel /ˈɡɹævəl/, gladly /ˈɡlædli/, angular /ˈæŋ.ɡjə.lɚ/
Zo oefen je met deze video
- Luister de hele video één keer zonder te spreken en noteer de woorden die je niet kent.
- Begin op 0,75× snelheid, spreek zin voor zin na en ga terug naar normale snelheid zodra het makkelijk gaat.
- Neem jezelf op en vergelijk met het origineel; let daarbij op woorden als prompt, predator, programmer.
Wat is de Shadowing-techniek?
Shadowing is een wetenschappelijk onderbouwde taalleermethode die oorspronkelijk is ontwikkeld voor professionele tolkentraining en gepopulariseerd door polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. De methode is eenvoudig maar krachtig: je luistert naar native Engelse audio en herhaalt het onmiddellijk hardop — als een schaduw die de spreker volgt met slechts 1–2 seconden vertraging. In tegenstelling tot passief luisteren of grammaticadrills, dwingt shadowing je hersenen en mondspieren om echte spraakpatronen tegelijkertijd te verwerken en te reproduceren. Onderzoek toont aan dat het de uitspraaknauwkeurigheid, intonatie, ritme, verbonden spraak, luisterbegrip en spreekvaardigheid aanzienlijk verbetert — waardoor het een van de meest effectieve methoden is voor IELTS Speaking-voorbereiding en echte Engelse communicatie.