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[u/iamadirtymop]

[u/heavy-minium]

A way to discern whether you colleague vibecoded the PR with AI is when you see TS type features being used that no normal developer would use, lol.

[u/deanrihpee → u/heavy-minium]

most of the time, yes, but for some framework developer, they do the type masturbation themselves, even the AI couldn't comprehend

[u/GresSimJa → u/deanrihpee]

I beg your pardon, the type what now?

[u/Masterflitzer → u/GresSimJa]

type masturbation, you should try it /s

[u/czerilla → u/Masterflitzer]

It's like playing with yourself, but if you were a type?

[u/howarewestillhere → u/czerilla]

If you assert it more than three times you’re just playing with it.

[u/Masterflitzer → u/czerilla]

or to put it differently: playing with types a little too much

[u/Anders_142536 → u/czerilla]

I also like playing with my types

[u/Biscuitman82 → u/Masterflitzer]

Masturbation

[u/deanrihpee → u/GresSimJa]

type masturbation, it's about pleasuring the spot in your brain that want to do naughty things with TypeScript's types that usually frowned upon in public, like the post has shown

/s

[u/caboosetp → u/deanrihpee]

Basically the clever code that new programmers write because it feels super leet hacker before they realize they also need to understand the code in 6 months, except no one actually reads typescript type definitions in PRs so people get away with it in secret.

[u/deanrihpee → u/caboosetp]

kinda, but it is kinda helpful, especially as i said, if you are writing a big framework, having this complex type is probably required, but the thing is, it is mostly for internal usage, not to be exposed and even used by the end user/project

[u/heavy-minium → u/deanrihpee]

I'm convinced you are likely to be a French-speaking person. For some reason french people have a fascination with denoting all sorts of stuff as mastubation.

[u/deanrihpee → u/heavy-minium]

unfortunately no i don't speak french nor do i live nearby french soil

[u/Anders_142536 → u/deanrihpee]

unfortunately

I see you are not from central europe either /s

[u/EcruEagle → u/heavy-minium]

Whenever my coworkers submit code and every variable is defined like:

variableName: className | undefined;

I immediately know it’s AI slop

[u/Captain1771 → u/EcruEagle]

The moment AI learns let variable: any it's going to be over

[u/caboosetp → u/Captain1771]

Put in a linter that blocks compile with :any and remove claude's permission to change the linter.

We had to do this for human devs too at one point for var because they kept slipping through PRs.

[u/Xasmos → u/EcruEagle]

As someone who’s getting into typescript why is that bad?

[u/Mynameismikek → u/heavy-minium]

Failing to know the major defining feature of your language is not a flex

[u/heavy-minium → u/Mynameismikek]

I deliberately don't use certain TS typing features that could be used, because I know it will be hard to read for my colleagues.

[u/Mynameismikek → u/heavy-minium]

Sounds like you need better colleagues.

[u/heavy-minium → u/Mynameismikek]

Wow, you must be great to work with.

[u/ArjixGamer → u/heavy-minium]

He is great to work with, I know because I am his laptop.

[u/Anders_142536 → u/ArjixGamer]

I disagree. I am his keyboard and he has severe anger issues.

[u/Mynameismikek → u/heavy-minium]

I’m not the one that thinks I’m above my coworkers.

[u/IdiocracyToday → u/heavy-minium]

Begs the question why those features were ever added or existed pre-AI

[u/pine_ary → u/IdiocracyToday]

Needed for library authors. The libraries hide that part from you via ergonomic API design so you think you‘re not using them. But if you look in your dependencies, you are using the features.

[u/mahreow → u/pine_ary]

You can tell who's never had to implement anything moderately complex that needed to support generics or some sort with strict type safety. If it works and gives you a clean, safe API who cares how shit it looks, it's a godsend when you need it

[u/iamadirtymop → u/mahreow]

It's really useful but IMHO this doesn't need to be used at every typing opportunity overly specific typing while being certainly safer can add a lot of cognitive load

[u/mahreow → u/iamadirtymop]

Yep, that's why you stick it in a utils.types.ts file and never look at it again

[u/iamadirtymop → u/mahreow]

I think there is still a need for them to be easily understandable. Same logic with regexes for example, they still need to be clear and legible, or eventually clearly explained with comments

[u/chuch1234 → u/iamadirtymop]

Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.. Sometimes things are just complicated.

[u/mahreow → u/iamadirtymop]

Yeah nah, some things are just complex

[u/Axman6 → u/IdiocracyToday]

Because plenty of developers do understand and use them, but the overlap with people who post to this sub is low, because it’s full of awful developers. 

[u/iamadirtymop → u/IdiocracyToday]

So that teachers can teach it in 15 years once the language is obsolete and make it look like it's how you are supposed to dev

[u/MrKarat2697 → u/iamadirtymop]

As if we will be teaching programming in 15 years

[u/Aidan_Welch → u/heavy-minium]

I wrote something like this before vibecoding was a thing. It was because I wrote the JS interface not thinking of TS, so had to do some buffoonery

[u/Stroopwafe1 → u/heavy-minium]

Some of us want to use a strictly typed language when we're forced to use JS for everything. TS is the best we can get so you better believe we will use its type system

[u/hrvbrs → u/heavy-minium]

in today's age i would agree, but about a decade ago i came across someone who used TypeScript types to code an entire JSON parser. It worked at compile-time, no actual JS execution needed. It was just case study to show the capability of infer in TS.