Ai code is specifically annoying because it looks like it would work, but its just plausible bullshit.
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And that's what happens when you spend a trillion dollars on an autocomplete: amazing at making things look like whatever it's imitating, but with zero understanding of why the original looked that way.
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All programs can be written with on less line of code. All programs have at least one bug.
By the logical consequences of these axioms every program can be reduced to one line of code - that doesn't work.
One day AI will get there.
On one line of code you say?
*search & replaces all line breaks with spaces*
Fired for not writing the quota number of lines even junior devs manage to hit.
All programs can be written with on less line of code. All programs have at least one bug.
The humble "Hello world" would like a word.
Just to boast my old timer credentials.
There is an utility program in IBM’s mainframe operating system, z/OS, that has been there since the 60s.
It has just one assembly code instruction: a BR 14, which means basically ‘return’.
The first version was bugged and IBM had to issue a PTF (patch) to fix it.
Okay, you can't just drop that bombshell without elaborating. What sort of bug could exist in a program which contains a single return instruction?!?
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Watching the serious people trying to use AI to code gives me the same feeling as the cybertruck people exploring the limits of their car. XD
"It's terrible and I should hate it, but gosh it it isn't just so cool"
I wish i could get so excited over disappointing garbage
You definitely could use AI to code, the catch is you need to know how to code first.
I use AI to write code for mundane tasks all the time. I also review and integrate the code myself.
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Welp. Its actually very in line with the late stage capitalist system. All polish, no innovation.
Awwwww snap look at this limp dick future we got going on here.
To be fair, if I wrote 3000 new lines of code in one shot, it probably wouldn’t run either.
LLMs are good for simple bits of logic under around 200 lines of code, or things that are strictly boilerplate. People who are trying to force it to do things beyond that are just being silly.
You managed to get an ai to do 200 lines of code and it actually compiled?
Uh yeah, like all the time. Anyone who says otherwise really hasn’t tried recently. I know it’s a meme that AI can’t code (and still in many cases that’s true, eg. I don’t have the AI do anything with OpenCV or complex math) but it’s very routine these days for common use cases like web development.
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Write tests and run them, reiterate until all tests pass.
Bogosort with extra steps
That doesn't sound viby to me, though. You expect people to actually code? /s
I’ve heard that a Claude 4 model generating code for an infinite amount of time will eventually simulate a monkey typing out Shakespeare
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Its like having a junior developer with a world of confidence just change shit and spend hours breaking things and trying to fix them, while we pay big tech for the privilege of watching the chaos.
I asked chat gpt to give me a simple squid proxy config today that blocks everything except https. It confidently gave me one but of course it didnt work. It let through http and despite many attempts to get a working config that did that, it just failed.
So yeah in the end i have to learn squid syntax anyway, which i guess is fine, but I spent hours trying to get a working config because we pay for chat gpt to do exactly that....
It confidently gave me one
IMO, that's one of the biggest "sins" of the current LLMs, they're trained to generate words that make them sound confident.
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Man, I can't wait to try out generative AI to generate config files for mission critical stuff! Imagine paying all of us devops wankers when my idiot boss can just ask Chat GPT to sort all this legacy mess we're juggling with on the daily!
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Ctrl+A + Del.
So clean.
On Error Resume Next
This weekend I successfully used Claude to add three features in a Rust utility I had wanted for a couple years. I had opened issue requests, but no else volunteered. I had tried learning Rust, Wayland and GTK to do it myself, but the docs at the time weren’t great and the learning curve was steep. But Claude figured it all out pretty quick.
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I'm pretty sure that is how we got CORBA
now just make it construct UML models and then abandon this and move onto version 2
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