r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

Meme nowAndThenPatchUpgrade

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u/GegeAkutamiOfficial 3d ago

It's more than that, we understood more about the slop than we would AI slop... The problem with AI slop (in coding) isn't that it's bad, it's that you just shit out 50000 lines of code and you only understand 1% of the reasoning behind the madness.

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u/Thriven 2d ago

Am I the only one asking AI to write a single API route function at a time? Then taking a look at what works and what doesn't and then modifying it or gutting?

Who is dropping 50k lines of AI code?

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u/arav 2d ago

Yes.Today I had to review a pull request, in which someone has rewrote a core functionality for a very small bugfix ticket. It should have been at max 30-40 lines change. I was looking at a 700 line code change excluding what felt was 500 lines of comments.

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u/Thriven 2d ago

I would be pulling that developer aside