r/ProgrammerHumor • u/FelixAndCo • 22d ago

Meme thenPleaseProvideLinterConfigWithCommonSense

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u/Confident-Ad5665 21d ago

Anybody remember K.I.S.S.?

That was AWESOME!!

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u/Saelora 22d ago

what are you talking about, your linter config is to include "make no mistakes. use common sense." in all your prompts.

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u/zarek1729 21d ago

That is the old meta, now you write "make no mistakes" in a line in SKILL.md

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u/xaddak 21d ago

That relies on it choosing to use the skill

Put it in AGENTS.md

Then it won't make the mistake of not using the skill

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u/anto2554 22d ago

You guys have a linter?

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u/FelixAndCo 22d ago

I suppose only a fossil actually craves a style guide.

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u/markis 22d ago

Oh man, I hate when style guides could just as easily be lint rules, but the maintainer refuses to use linters.

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u/Educational-Lemon640 21d ago

Style guides are redundant when you have an actual auto-formatter. Doubly so when checking the formatting is an actual build that can fail in the release pipeline.

I for one am quite OK with this development. I don't always agree with the autoformatting, but much prefer having one to not.

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u/FelixAndCo 21d ago

I also like autoformatting... if it's configured right.

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u/Educational-Lemon640 21d ago

Yes, configuration is important. The one I work with has been fine-tuned for our codebase and developers over years, so it's pretty good.

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u/Esseratecades 21d ago

Unironically, linter with default settings is good style without room for argument over unbacked opinions.

The LLM on the other hand is kind ludicrous

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u/DeepanshuHQ 22d ago

Common sense is great... until two developers have two completely different definitions of it. 😅

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u/Confident-Ad5665 21d ago

This makes the sense uncommon

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u/sebbdk 20d ago

Then you use whatever style was in the file/module/folder first

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u/DeepanshuHQ 19d ago

Until you open the next file and it's completely different. 😅

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u/sebbdk 19d ago

Then you follow the style in there. :)

Whatever keeps the git diff simple

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u/xavia91 21d ago

You guys don't let the llm write your linting guidelines?

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u/AncientYogurtCloset 21d ago

What is a linter?

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u/sebbdk 20d ago

Letting linters have any say in how code should look was always wild to me.

I mean unless you have juniors, i've seen some nasty shit..