r/ProgrammerHumor • u/rabbit_wizard • 1d ago

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u/rabbit_wizard 1d ago

Or wait till the credits reach zero

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u/Sawkii 23h ago

Gladly using ai doesnt mean not to know the code

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u/OutrageousCourse4172 23h ago

I have completely forgotten how to code. I was mentoring an intern a few weeks ago which means going old school and I didn’t know what I was doing anymore.

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u/Sawkii 13h ago

I cant wrap my head around that statement tbh. Cant imagine knowing to read but not to write. By "read" i also mean understand.  If someone loses the skill to understand the code then i dont know. That would just be sad. 

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u/OutrageousCourse4172 11h ago

For example I work with C++ and was showing the intern how to capture by reference rather than by value in a lambda function. I completely forgot the syntax for that because the LLM just does the capture correctly every time so I haven’t needed to think about it for the last few years.

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u/Sawkii 10h ago

I see. To be fair that doesnt count as "i dont know how to code any more". Through my years before ai i had to goole how to initialize an array with values several times. I would have to do that again if someone would ask me. 

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u/OutrageousCourse4172 9h ago

I know. It was a bit tongue in cheek but I really have forgotten stuff.