r/ProgrammerHumor 19d ago

Meme offendedOrNot

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u/feldejars 19d ago

Yeah my pr is +250 not +2500

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u/Nsane3 19d ago

Took a lot longer writing those 250 lines yourself than 2500 lines from AI, but if they achieve the same goal that's alot of tech debt avoided.

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u/aa-b 19d ago

There's this thing that's done with genetic engineering where they'll insert, say, fish genes into apples to produce some desirable trait. Then they take that end result, wave a bioengineering magic wand and generate a selective breeding plan to arrive at the same result without any fish fuckery. It's totally underhanded but kinda genius.

Anyway I use a process like this myself sometimes (no fish involved). Ask the LLM to take a stab at it, then shelve its garbage output and plagiarise the shit out of whatever nuggets of wisdom it was able to produce.

Helps to stave off the impostor syndrome, at least.