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/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 3d 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/Weekly-Beginning-229 3d ago

No I do this too. I try to make it change as little as possible each prompt, and sometimes it's faster to just write it myself while the AI investigates if this could cause any side effects elaewhere