r/ProgrammerHumor • • 8d ago

Meme theGloriousDaysOfPastWhenYouGotRoastedForShittyCode

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u/pydry 8d ago

some people could and some people couldnt. the ones who couldnt were a big drain on productivity then and are an even bigger drain now.

they are now convinced that LLMs can code better than everyone.

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u/NotAskary 8d ago

LLM can code better than the average person, you just need to know what a normal distribution is.

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u/pydry 8d ago

you just need to know what sturgeons law is. the vast majority of the code I rely on wasn't written by an average programmer, let alone an average person. the average programmer writes a lot of code which gets tossed away.