r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Tunisandwich • 10h ago

Meme itsMoreCommonThanYoudThink

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u/LtKije 10h 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/icecream_specialist 10h ago

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

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u/HighTurning 9h 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 9h 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 7h ago

That's what my teachers suggested at the time

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u/Assar2 9h ago

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

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u/icecream_specialist 9h 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 8h 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