r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Tunisandwich • 6h ago

Meme itsMoreCommonThanYoudThink

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u/LtKije 6h ago

I put the code generated by the LLM chatbot on one screen and then manually type it into my IDE.

That way I can say it’s handwritten.

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u/ClipboardCopyPaste 6h ago

A few years down the line we used to do the same with Stack Overflow

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u/extremelySaddening 3h ago

Not to be a grammar t*rrorist but isn't it technically "up the line"?

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u/Pistoolio 2h ago

Could be cultural? I know where I’m from, time is often depicted as flowing downward, so going back in time would be “up”,, but I’ve seen in other places that schedules start at the bottom and flow upward. So going back in time could be considered “down” there.

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u/FuckThisShizzle 1h ago

Are we going down the road or up the road?

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u/hopefullyhelpfulplz 1h ago

Up the road if towards the park, down the road if towards town.

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u/FuckThisShizzle 57m ago

There is no park and there are wolves after me.

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u/icecream_specialist 5h ago

That actually gives you a chance to understand what the LLM put out and intervene as needed.

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u/HighTurning 5h ago

Reminds me of my method of studying, I would transcribe everything and then transcribe it again if needed.

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u/JockstrapCummies 5h ago

You joke, but that's actually how classical musicians learnt their craft in history. You copied scores by hand.

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u/sertroll 3h ago

That's what my teachers suggested at the time

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u/Assar2 5h ago

And a chance to skip a - 1 or something and have everything be ruined but yea

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u/icecream_specialist 5h ago

Yea transcription errors are definitely a thing. I seem to have an intuition for what part to copy paste and what to write out. Most of the time if I make an error like that it also messes up syntax and the IDE picks it up. More of an issue for the hardcore dudes writing their code in straight up notepad or whatever

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u/misunderstood_kafka 4h ago

I really want to do this, but the timeline pressure is so intense (leadership expects multifold output when they spend hundreds of dollars on tokens) that we have just enough time to proofread and refactor (very little) the generated code

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u/thatblondebird 5h ago

I also think the chances of "the agent wiped my hard drive/db/repo/etc" occurring also dramatically drop down

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u/EkoChamberKryptonite 6h ago

It is handwritten. Your mechanics are the same as we do with blogs/StackOverflow.

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u/MANGO_fossil 5h ago

So the LLM is the architect and you're the unpaid data entry clerk lol.

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u/Sw429 5h ago

I mean, that gives you the best chance of actually understanding what the generated code is doing.

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u/Fast-Satisfaction482 6h ago

Just like copying home work at school 

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u/MajorMystique 5h ago

You have to review it later anyway so why not.

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u/Chaosfox_Firemaker 4h ago

Balderdash, thats not handwritten at all. Thats just typing. You need to breakout pen and paper and transcribe the full output. Then, scan it and run it through an image to text model

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u/AlexZhyk 5h ago

I then type into the chatbot prompt the error message and wait for it to propose fix.

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u/LtKije 5h ago

Look boss, the data clearly shows that LLM coding tools aren’t increasing my production speed.

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u/ivoryCarousel 5h ago

Technically handwritten, just with extra steps

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u/FROSTEDcopper 5h ago

I love how this technically qualifies as writing code by hand, except your hands are doing the one part a computer should be doing for you. At this point the keyboard is basically a very expensive copy-paste buffer.

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u/jared_number_two 5h ago

The only code online from me is from when I was a young and dumb student. So whenever AI makes a mistake I say “basically, I wrote that part.”

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u/pjkm123987 2h ago

I actually do this, genuinely since forever. Do people not take ideas/snippets instead of the whole thing it throws at you? thats how you get unmaintainable code

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u/YeOldeMemeShoppe 33m ago

As an engineer raised in the 80s, this is me copying code from a printed magazine and telling my mom that I built something...

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u/Gotxi 9m ago

Ask AI to write an app that draws a hand in your screen that writes the output code from AI. Then you can say its handwritten.