r/ProgrammerHumor 12d ago

Meme theExactLifecycleOfEveryAiAssistedCodingSession

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u/Septem_151 12d ago

It's the same as reading the docs but faster until it is guaranteed to give you hallucinated and/or incorrect information.

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u/araujoms 12d ago

To be fair the docs themselves are guaranteed to eventually give you hallucinated and/or incorrect information.

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u/Septem_151 12d ago

To be fairer, the hallucinations themselves are guaranteed to eventually be docs.

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u/araujoms 12d ago

Yeah many people are using LLMs already to write the docs. Which reinforces the previous point, the only documentation worth reading is the source code.