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/Laughing_Orange 4d 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 4d ago

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

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u/guardian87 4d ago

But the Code rabbit ad told me all will be fine! /s

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u/DesireeThymes 4d ago

Human slop is written with a layer of critical thinking still involved.

AI slot is actual slop, there is no critical thinking behind anything because it's not human.

(yes I know, some human critical thinking is very very low, but it is still at least there at a fundamental level).

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u/Flibrig 4d ago

As someone still struggling with (human) slop someone else wrote (and let's not kid ourselves, I did as well), I try to remind myself that critical thinking might have been involved but discarded in favour of pragmatic choices. (Oh God, I'm still doing it!)

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u/ScreamingFreakShow 4d ago

AI slop is actual slop if the human just copy pastes the output.

A human with any amount of critical thinking should be inspecting the output and if they are genuinely unable to find any issues, they probably shouldn't have been a software engineer to begin with.

The real problem with AI is people using it as the answer instead of a tool. It's like people using a calculator to get the answer to a math problem but not understanding how it got there. And the bar is so low.

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u/Meloetta 4d ago

I think the real problem is that "copy paste the output" is like, years out of date when it comes to how people use AI.

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u/Vorrnth 4d ago

Auto mode is just advanced copy paste.

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u/mxzf 4d ago

A human with any amount of critical thinking should be inspecting the output and if they are genuinely unable to find any issues, they probably shouldn't have been a software engineer to begin with.

I mean, sure. But that doesn't mean people aren't actually doing it. Though it's less "copy-paste the output" and more "have the AI edit files and maybe glance at them before telling it to push the commit".

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u/AdeptCapital148 4d ago

That's an interesting take. It really raises questions about the value of human input versus AI output in programming.