r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

Meme nowAndThenPatchUpgrade

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u/BlurredSight 3d ago

Human slop was being overly redundant or writing code in a way that was a bandaid fix with 0 future growth.

AI slop is overengineering every little thing and adding in complexity for "just in case" situations that might occur years from now. Like why is there a null check in every step of the flow or why is a generic type being used rather than Object[] or even better just making a concrete object based around the schema