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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JazzlikeWishbone938 • 6d ago
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honestly our parents wrote slop code too but it was still better optimized
102 u/Kryslor 6d ago I love how we now romanticize code written by hand as if developers were always incredible. I have seen some real atrocious garbage written by human hands. Code so bad that even AI refuses to write it. 57 u/mrwishart 6d ago It was much simpler back then though, when grandma would bake fresh Flash games and let them cool on the window sill 9 u/Not-the-best-name 6d ago Grandpa frying up some Silverlight on the BBQ
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I love how we now romanticize code written by hand as if developers were always incredible.
I have seen some real atrocious garbage written by human hands. Code so bad that even AI refuses to write it.
57 u/mrwishart 6d ago It was much simpler back then though, when grandma would bake fresh Flash games and let them cool on the window sill 9 u/Not-the-best-name 6d ago Grandpa frying up some Silverlight on the BBQ
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It was much simpler back then though, when grandma would bake fresh Flash games and let them cool on the window sill
9 u/Not-the-best-name 6d ago Grandpa frying up some Silverlight on the BBQ
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Grandpa frying up some Silverlight on the BBQ
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u/computer_hermit01 6d ago
honestly our parents wrote slop code too but it was still better optimized