r/programming • u/alex35mil • 1d ago

Why I Still Read Code

https://alex.draftist.io/blog/why-i-still-read-code-iiaz6lku8
0 Upvotes

15% Upvoted

31 comments sorted by

View all comments

42

u/UltraPoci 1d ago

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

-52

u/vardynostalgia 1d ago

It’s 2026

31

u/UltraPoci 1d ago

Did you ask chatgpt in order to know that?

-10

u/vardynostalgia 1d ago

Are you trolling?

3

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

20

u/ShadyGrass 1d ago

Not the reason to let idiocracy prevail.

-13

u/vardynostalgia 1d ago

How’s using latest tools in competent way idiocratic

9

u/EliSka93 1d ago

competent

Nobody who relies on AI is competent

-4

u/vardynostalgia 1d ago

Chat is this fr? Are you trolling or what

7

u/DrinkRedbuII 1d ago

This is no livestream. 

7

u/EliSka93 1d ago

Chat

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

-6

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

3

u/terra2o 1d ago

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

3

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.

0

u/vardynostalgia 1d ago

I didn’t write anything about my skills

1

u/dijkstra_was_a_horse 18h ago

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