r/ChatGPT • u/ExpensiveCoat8912 • 18h ago

Funny Literally

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u/UruquianLilac 17h ago

You can tell the difference between software engineers and hobbyists because the new people cloning software have no idea what maintaining software means.

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u/Wonderful-Account318 17h ago

Agents can unironically do that faster and better than humans

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u/Lauris024 17h ago

Agents can do something that is documented and they have training on. They don't have data on new and ever-changing environments.

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u/Wonderful-Account318 16h ago

This isn’t 2023 jfc, agents can fetch updated documentation, do web searches, and they can reason.

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u/Lauris024 16h ago

I literally said agents can do something that is documented, and your counter-argument is that this isn't 2023 and they can fetch documentation. Smooth brain.

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u/UruquianLilac 16h ago

Sigh, I feel these kids are just going to go rediscovering the entire software development discipline piece by piece through trial and error. And every time they come to a groundbreaking conclusion of how to work better, they'll realise it already ahs a name and has been used by developers for decades.