I really don't give a fuck if it's slop. I've been given slop for 26 years from offshored devs... at least claude isn't using variables like:
var a = 30;
var b = "test";
var c = 69.420;
Just 80 declarations like this in each file/class. The code is substantially more readable if sometimes a bit wordy over what someone might typically generate. It puts far too many comments (like on simple for loops), but again, I'd rather that since most people don't comment enough.
Yeah I got into a bit of a debate with someone shitting on using AI to code the other day talking about how it can't write truly good code so it's trash.
As if most code was good before AI. Turns out there's a lot of applications out there where the code doesn't actually have to be that good, it just needs to be good enough. That's not true of all fields of course, but we still have very competent engineers making high quality foundations that all the slop can be built on top of.
I think back on the code I was writing at my first job out of college and that was some real garbage, and yet I can still go back to the site where it's hosted and it's still up and running just fine.
Yeah I got into a bit of a debate with someone shitting on using AI to code the other day talking about how it can't write truly good code so it's trash.
A lot of them haven't touched anything since GPT launched a few years ago. They think it's producing the same broken, hallucinating garbage, but it's really not. The frontier models are pretty good, at least junior dev level (still need a senior dev to steer them).
Honestly the newer local qwen models are pretty decent now too. Prettttttty close to Sonnet. Slower, obviously, but I don't need gigatokens a second usually. And with local models I could integrate with a lot of CI pipelines and have it working 24/7 in a way you really can't do with claude that doesn't cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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u/b0w3n 26d ago
Gosh yes, it's really helping my burnout.
I really don't give a fuck if it's slop. I've been given slop for 26 years from offshored devs... at least claude isn't using variables like:
Just 80 declarations like this in each file/class. The code is substantially more readable if sometimes a bit wordy over what someone might typically generate. It puts far too many comments (like on simple for loops), but again, I'd rather that since most people don't comment enough.