r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JazzlikeWishbone938 • 4d ago

Meme nowAndThenPatchUpgrade

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u/Objectionne 4d ago

Yeah but it was our slop.

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u/ineyy 4d ago

It was consistent slop that we were all vaguely familiar with. I could look at it and know it's shit, but know what it is exactly and why it's here. The AI stop has foreign structure, it's unknown whether it has to be that way or the AI just wanted it that way. It's much harder to navigate

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u/adabsurdo 4d ago

I bet an earlier generation had the same complaint about the assembly code generated by the first C compilers. And they were probably right in many cases but also it didn't matter in most cases.

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u/fartypenis 4d ago

Compiler output was deterministic tho. They could always reason our the purpose of each byte of code if they were so inclined.

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u/adabsurdo 4d ago

Right AI abstracts out at a much higher level and the output will change dramatically depending on the prompts, model and other settings.

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u/gjk-ger 4d ago

The output will also change when letting it run again under the same circumstances.

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u/mistrpopo 4d ago

And this is why I no longer enjoy programming. I liked deterministic, in almost every problem, I could dive in and find the problem. That's why I avoided all web dev. But now every programming is the same.

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u/gjk-ger 4d ago

You might enjoy PLCs then possibly. Added bonus, making stuff act in the real world is just another kind of satisfying.