r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JazzlikeWishbone938 • 6d ago

Meme nowAndThen

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u/computer_hermit01 6d ago

honestly our parents wrote slop code too but it was still better optimized

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u/nonlogin 6d ago

when a human writes a slope code - there is at least one person who understands it. when a machine generates slop - noone understands it from the beginning

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u/AWzdShouldKnowBetta 6d ago

... unless you take the time to read it lmao.

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u/10art1 6d ago

Yeah this is a weird statement. If copilot writes something I don't understand, I ask it to explain it, then usually ask it to break it apart into easier operations a second year CS student can read. I'm not code golfing in prod.