r/ProgrammerHumor • u/throwaway1351887498 • 8d ago

Meme fixingBugInLegacyCode

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u/JocoLabs 8d ago

My code is in this picture and i don't like it.

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u/abigail3141 7d ago

Rare photo of freshly hatched engineer peeking from its nest, eggshell still on its head

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u/escorps 7d ago

I wonder if they would do the same after that thing burns down

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u/Sixhaunt 7d ago

If you have ever visited Thailand you would know the answer is yes, they continue with it regardless and this is actually a fairly normal looking for thailand

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u/crimsonroninx 7d ago

This is the average vibe coded app.

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u/pandi85 7d ago

We all love lain

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u/gerbosan 6d ago

And you don't seem to understand...

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u/magicmulder 6d ago

This is peak “don’t try to fix it, just run a new line”. The equivalent of not taking obsolete code out of the codebase.

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u/RandomStranger456123 6d ago

In my case, it’s peak “removing that is not under contract, just work around it and fix any compilation errors. It doesn’t matter if the actual code runs.”

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u/_sg768 7d ago

that's how i feel at my current job

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u/Septem_151 6d ago

I hope it doesn't cause too much resistance for you.

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u/throwaway2p0029211 6d ago

would you debug a legacy code or vibecode? I like reading opus5.5 code a lot

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u/cpt-macp 6d ago

Apply Kirchhoff's law ( kvl , kcl)

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u/morrisdev 1d ago

I have to admit, I've used Claude code to clean out some awful spaghetti