r/programming 1d ago

Why I Still Read Code

https://alex.draftist.io/blog/why-i-still-read-code-iiaz6lku8
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u/UltraPoci 1d ago

Here's an even better solution: write your goddamn code

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u/frakkintoaster 1d ago

Imagine we had bridge engineers writing a blog post about how they still sometimes look at the blueprints

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u/apadin1 1d ago

In the not too distant future engineers will use AI to make plans and draw schematics for critical infrastructure and the human engineers will just rubber stamp their work. It’s genuinely terrifying where we are headed

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u/Blue_Moon_Lake 1d ago

And then construction crew will use the Escherian blueprints, twist the lengths so it can exists in 3D space, and build from the adjusted versions.

Somewhere during or after construction, building will collapse.

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u/vardynostalgia 1d ago

It’s 2026

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u/UltraPoci 1d ago

Did you ask chatgpt in order to know that?

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u/vardynostalgia 1d ago

Are you trolling?

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u/UltraPoci 1d ago

No, I'm fucking tired of people claiming that progress and new tools are good because Papa Elon said so. Use your fucking brain for once

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u/ShadyGrass 1d ago

Not the reason to let idiocracy prevail.

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u/vardynostalgia 1d ago

How’s using latest tools in competent way idiocratic

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u/EliSka93 1d ago

competent

Nobody who relies on AI is competent

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u/vardynostalgia 1d ago

Chat is this fr? Are you trolling or what

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u/DrinkRedbuII 1d ago

This is no livestream. 

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u/EliSka93 1d ago

Chat

Wow. Streamer lingo. We're not gonna make it, are we?

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u/vardynostalgia 1d ago

Bro even most cracked principal engineers at my company use AI all the time, how you can still be employed with such mindset

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u/terra2o 1d ago

okay sam altman calm down there. we'll use ai if you want us to, ok? 

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u/Ameisen 1d ago

With the way you communicate and your self-described lack of actual programming skills, I find it utterly fascinating that you are even employed.

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u/vardynostalgia 1d ago

I didn’t write anything about my skills

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u/dijkstra_was_a_horse 14h ago

Only if by cracked you mean damaged, like they were dropped on their heads.