Vibe coders not understanding their code because they didn’t write it.
Me not understanding my code because I wrote it a month ago.
“huh. I wonder how this works? I’ll check with the original dev”
Checks git blame
“Well fuck…”
Vibe coders not understanding their code because they didn’t write it.
Me not understanding my code because I wrote it a month ago.
…we are not the same :P
My workflow is :
Step one: write down a bunch of nonsense, massive block comments of old code in case the new code is worse, and cludges in one massive file.
Step two: rewrite the whole thing: breaking it down into classes so it’s readable and maintainable …
Step 3: come back later and wonder where the hell anything is. Go to step 1
I’m going to lose my mind if I get any more support tickets where someone has cut and pasted the output from Claude instead of telling me what the problem actually was.
My job has basically turned into guessing what bad info Claude has given
My god, had someone send in a merge request with utter garbage, with Claude describing some nonsensical “root cause” as to why a function didn’t work. Claude made two changes:
- If the current scheme failed, use an entirely different scheme it claimed the software supports that does not work and was never documented as a way to work.
- If that scheme fails, swallow the error and don’t report the problem, leaving the problem silently in place but out of the user’s view at least for a short while. This is actually the change that ‘fixed’ the problem.
So I needed to know the debug data for what really went wrong, but the submitter got all pissy and said Claude already sorted it out and why can’t I just accept their slop merge request as-is, refusing to believe that all it did was catch and silently drop any and all errors associated with the code instead of fixing it. Wouldn’t run the procedure I stated would show them they had messed up data as a result of their ‘fix’.
Looks like there is an angry cryptobro downvoting responses who dare talk shit about claude in this thread lol
Absolutely infuriating.
We had a customer demand support for a competitors product, because Google AI told them that we owned that company.
Just complete the AI slop trough and copy and paste the ticket back into Claude to fix and open an MR and then have Claude review it and merge and then when there is a bug repeat the process.
I honestly don’t know what people are thinking, both employees and employers when people start copy pasting LLM shit. Why do I need you if all you are is a glorified macro? I strongly suspect the human is there to be the fall guy when the LLM invariably does something really stupid.
Tom still used AI — and that’s fine. Encouraged, even … This is kinda only half serious. AI is great — use it all day. Just don’t be a pipe. 🥩
That site is still promoting AI. So close, so damn close
Even worse is, many such “rational” use of AI often involves more AI usage than just posting slop.
I strongly suspect the human is there to be the fall guy when the LLM invariably does something really stupid.
This has a term, actually! “Accountability sink”.
Yes, like a heatsink in a computer, your job is to soak up all the damaging and unwanted aspects of what the “real” and “valuable” main components decide to do, so that consequences never reach any decision-makers.
Fun!
Work slop! Just love people using LLMs to hand the heavy lifting over to me.
I don’t even get tickets. I get tagged into a slack thread full of slop trying to guess why I am here and what I’m supposed to do.
That sounds awful, my condolences
At least Claude is half right half the time unlike normal users who just say it broke fix it and refuse to fucking elaborate.
I’ll take the slop machines bullshit over normal users fucking nonsense.
At least I cant be mad the machine isn’t using fucking critical thinking.
Its ironic that those same users talk to claude more about the problem, than they’re willing to tell you
What about us caffeinated autistic vibe coders? Slop production through the roof bb!
They exist, but I’d like to pretend they don’t.
Be me AudADHD locking the fuck in doing 10 hours of work in 2 hours when the legal meth kicks in. But it’s at 11:37pm and sometimes it’s wikiholes on GBU stabilizer fin evolutions instead of work.
And then I waste the rest of the next 2 days.
I used to write a ton of code while caffeinated.
Now I write less, better code since quitting caffeine.
There was a brief period where I was incapable of doing anything at all between the state of high caffeination and no caffeination.
So u were always high, what coding makes u do
Yeah, always high. I quit weed and caffeine at the same time. Quit alcohol 7 months ago. Nicotine a year ago. I’m completely sober for the first time in 13 years as of a few months ago. It wasn’t the code’s fault. It was depression. TBH the coding was a way to gain some control over my life. It gave me reasons to dive deeper into my addictions though.
Replace/append with medicated ADHD people
I dont know how you can code while caffeinated I need to drink to write code
Lisdexamfetamine+caffeine, let’s gooooooo
Help! I can no longer code. It feels like there’s an anvil on my chest.
can’t eat, coding…
Hands shaking but mind is going brrrr
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts acquire speed, The hands acquire shaking, The shaking becomes a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
Everything brrr if you coffee enough
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i don’t even need caffeine to write code (of varying quality) at high speeds.
I could either take several tedious hours to write out several thousand regex patterns by hand to automatically recognize differing formats of notation for this thing I’m doing IRL…
or I could have an LLM do it in a few seconds, and it’ll get 99.99% of the cases, missing maybe one case every hundred thousand…
take your guess as to which option I chose.
LLMs are a tool. I use it as such.
or I could have an LLM do it in a few seconds, and it’ll get 99.99% of the cases, missing maybe one case every hundred thousand…
Even if the LLM does things perfectly 100% of the time, how do you expect to maintain your skills if you offload all of your work onto a chatbot? What happens when you start offloading more and more until you’re not actually doing anything except typing in prompts?
My skillset is geared towards meatsacks and things that go boom. LLMs have been a massive boon to the 1% of my job that needs a code monkey.
As long as people still talk to each other, and things need exploding, I’ll have a job. Heck, if we somehow get to a point where money isnt needed, I’d still do what I do simply 'cuz I like it.
Frankly, your use case sounds like something has gone horribly wrong from the outset. If something needs several thousand regex patterns, then something is very very wrong, and there’s zero chance you have a comprehensive solution as it stands. Either trying to use regex for a use case that some natively AI approach might actually be warranted for, or regex is being used poorly and each one is too limited, or some other approach entirely is warranted.
well, it works, and i don’t need to touch it.
remaking what is already working would cost more time.
Yeah I’m not a fan of slop merchants and PRs the size of battleships but anyone solving merge conflicts by hand because they hate LLMs is being a tad masochistic in my opinion. I’m in two minds about how much coding itself ought to be automated, but I’m a strong advocate of automating the tedious donkey work we’d absolutely have got rid of years ago some other way if possible.
It’s also good for avoiding tarpits, sometimes I literally don’t want to learn something because it’s too expensive relative to the value of retaining it. I would rather crawl over a mile of broken glass and hot coals than learn the detailed ins and outs of WSDL just to support a legacy feature which is firmly in the crosshairs of my deprecation gun, to use a totally neutral and not driven by personal bitterness example.
