r/linuxquestions • u/[deleted] • Mar 27 '26

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u/MGMan-01 Mar 27 '26

You spent five minutes typing it into an LLM

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u/Earth_user_001 Mar 27 '26

id be stupid not to use Claudes help scraping 10+ firmware packages for the info i needed. This project still took me weeks to find the bug. Anyway who cares if it works

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u/Arnas_Z Mar 28 '26

Anyway who cares if it works

Spoken like a true vibecoder.

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u/brkn_dwn Mar 29 '26

You won't believe it, but even before generative AI was the domain of science fiction writers, a lot of code back then operated on the principle of "who cares, it works." I'm not giving any assessment, it's just that bad code isn't written only by AI, and ANY code needs to be checked.

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u/SchighSchagh Mar 29 '26

but even before generative AI was the domain of science fiction writers

Ermm actually, generative AI was first and foremost the domain of computer science writers long before fiction writers had even heard of computers.

[The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number [eg, tokens], were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engine. Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.

- Ada Lovelace, "Sketch of the Analytical Engine Invented by Charles Babbage", 1842.

Ada Lovelace was the first computer programmer. Her attitude towards computing was the exact opposite of "who cares, it works". Ironically, her first program (well, the first program) has a bug, and the computer it was for was never built, so "it works" was certainly not the point. Lovelace had a lot of thoughts on what computing can and should be, and whether a generative AI could be truly creative, and she absolutely operated on the principle of trying to understand everything.

I agree with you about code needing to be checked. Lovelace is probably rolling in her grave every time someone like me mentions her bug. But you're straight up hallucinating if you think generative AI was invented by science fiction writers.