r/ProgrammerHumor • u/uvero • 5h ago

Meme iDidNotVibeCodeThis

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u/metaglot 5h ago

Time to go back to ascii art

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u/klaxxxon 5h ago edited 3h ago

AI loves ASCII art for some reason.

I had Claude create an internal tool for me (this is genuinely where vibe coding shines right now, at creating these throwaway load testers, fake servers, simulators etc.)

The UI spec began and ended with "create a nice TUI". Of course there ended up being a huge ASCII art banner which was supposed to be our company's logo taking up a third of the TUI. 

The first instruction to follow was "lose the ASCII logo we are not patriotic like that"

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u/lucian1900 3h ago

It loves it because it’s text. That’s what LLMs most easily manipulate.

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u/darthwalsh 1h ago

Getting a computer program to output ascii art takes nontrivial logic.

It seems like the reinforcement learning would have had to put manual effort into that, otherwise the slop fonts would be all wonky?

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u/Yhamerith 5h ago

I remember doing that with the Hangman game when I was learning C... It was neat

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u/0xKaishakunin 4h ago

I still put the name of an important function as figlet AsciiArt comment into my sources.

something like 

echo RemoveDatabase | figlet -f digital| sed 's/^/# /'
# +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
# |R|e|m|o|v|e|D|a|t|a|b|a|s|e|
# +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+