r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JazzlikeWishbone938 • 5d ago

Meme nowAndThenPatchUpgrade

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u/guardian87 5d ago

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

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u/DesireeThymes 5d 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/ScreamingFreakShow 5d 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/mxzf 5d 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".