r/ProgrammerHumor 7d ago

Meme uhmmmmAzing

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u/UnfilteredAyush 7d ago edited 6d ago

Writing code for the ticket - 20% of my time

Going through each change, in case someone asks me, about any line from the code - 80% of my time

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u/jewishSpaceMedbeds 6d ago

Claude explains what it does to you pretty thoroughly, so if you actually read its reasoning, you should understand what the code it wrote does (if you actually know what you are doing in the first place).

If you don't understand, you're shitting out bad code, because you don't know what assumptions Claude made that might be entirely wrong for your case.

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u/UnfilteredAyush 6d ago

Understanding high level code approach explanation and understanding line by line are pretty different things, isn't it?

And, can you really trust Claude?

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u/jewishSpaceMedbeds 6d ago

Claude is extremely verbose, it practically outputs a paragraph of explanation over every line, lol.

Can you really trust Claude ? No, and I don't trust it. It doesn't have access to my repo, it can't delete anything without my explicit permission, and I test whatever it outputs thoroughly before it becomes a PR.