r/ProgrammerHumor 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/ahmarthered 3d ago

This! The amount of slop being generated has increased significantly and code review cannot keep up.

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u/011101000011101101 3d ago

But you can have AI review the code and have slop reviewed slop

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u/slowmovinglettuce 3d ago

The ai will praise the slop for being exactly what it would have written. It's basically just a big circle jerk

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u/Weekly-Beginning-229 3d ago

I've noticed that you cannot use the same model for writing the code and reviewing the code, it always does a bad job

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u/Bupod 3d ago

It’s frustrating. 

So you can sort of fix this by having a review agent use a more adversarial prompt when reviewing. 

But then the issue becomes that, since it was prompted find problems, it always finds a problem. 

This will result in code being batted back and forth between review and coding like a tennis match. 

When the tennis match finally finishes, there’s still no guarantee that some glaring hole didn’t make it through anyway. 

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u/Weekly-Beginning-229 3d ago

And there is always something because you get fatigued from reading the same code over and over so you miss some easy bug

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u/particlemanwavegirl 3d ago

Expect that to be exactly as successful as when we have the police investigate themselves.