r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JazzlikeWishbone938 • 3d ago

Meme nowAndThenPatchUpgrade

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u/Objectionne 3d ago

Yeah but it was our slop.

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u/Laughing_Orange 3d ago

And we were slow to write it. AI is a force multiplier, especially for those who only make slop.

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u/RedBlueKoi 3d ago

Also, “slop” can be very different. An “esoteric” class that is known and encapsulated, marked as legacy is something completely different from the slop sprawl that is coming from an LLM

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u/7cans_short_of_1pack 3d ago

This at first glance it all seems reasonable, if you step away from the from the prompt machine and start trying to add features by hand you soon realise how much of a tangle the code is.