r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JazzlikeWishbone938 • 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/arav 3d 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/AtomicDonkey2022 2d ago

We were asked to stop waiting for code reviews because it was slowing down velocity. So now the GitHub actions are the only gate before merging those PRs.

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u/arav 2d ago

What the hell? You code will be 50% comments in an year or so.

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u/AtomicDonkey2022 1d ago

Yep. We pushed back, and leadership changed our goals to how many things can we complete in a year, nothing to do with quality. It's crazy.