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Me watching ChatGPT confidently write the wrongest code possible and then gaslight me into thinking it’s fine..
Yeah, even after you hand it the docs.
You can call it out on its bullshit, lol. I like the personality experiment Monday because it is more honest and snarky.
This feels too painfully accurate.
If you do not run the code, it is fine. I always add this line:
// Worked on (dev1)'s system on 19 July 2025
Ah yes, the sacred ritual of ‘works on my machine.’ Blessed be dev1, guardian of the one functional environment.
what's up with all these memes about chatgpt producing bad code? are people really this bad at prompting? just be specific about what you want and the code will be fine
It can't do novel problem solving and can't structure anything coherently across a large codebase, I see junior developers committing code that is fucking ass because they can't tell how many problems their ai code is going to cause down the line but it passed the CI so they assumed it was fine
well i don't do this for a living so it's not like i have to worry about any of that shit, lmaooo
works great for n00bs like me who work independently on random shit
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It can't do novel problem solving
hmm, i'm not sure if i've ever asked it to solve a novel problem, i've only asked it to do shit it was probably trained on a thousand times
No, it won't. Especially if you need to integrate with other existing programs and libraries. It's really good at making a very basic outline of the thing you need, but not a real-world functional one. For now.
it writes good code though
like just ask it to write code and it does it
i stopped using chatgpt btw cuz gemini is way better, the code is much more thorough
it writes good code though
ROFL! 🤣
It's not even able to write a correct "Hello World" program!
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1m28bp5/comment/n3z35ar/
More or less everything it outputs is either completely buggy or contains a lot of problems.
For anything that isn't trivial it's not even able to generate any code at all that would make any sense.
Only some clueless juniors may think that this trash can write "good code".
But what to expect from people who aren't even able to write on full sentence correctly?
you'll probably get upvoted even though you're just wrong. you sound like you've never even used AI to code before and you're basing your opinions on /r/ProgrammerHumor posts
'Just prompt better' like ChatGPT is a genie and we’re all just bad at wishes.
I remember an arrogant junior going off on how great AI was on Slack and trying to pull the "in my experience" card (he had all of about a year experience at this point)
Literally as this was going on I get handed a PR to review where the code couldn't even build, never mind pass the suite of tests.
The cause: They'd copy-pasted ChatGPT code without checking it
Codex is quite close to being genuinely better than a junior though
*Codex in the hands of a Senior
How people use AI confidentiality boggles my mind. I am a junior myself, but i've been dabbling in programming for 10+ years. The only thing AI is good for is pointing you in a direction, i'd never use AI written code without knowing exactly what it does and refactoring it.
Big fact I use ai for pointing my error and doing answer research instead of wasting my time in searching that deep think was really helpful for me
I don’t think there is anything wrong using AI written code as long as you understand what it wrote and any scope for improvement. The claude sonnet 4 really excels at writing the code but you need to give it proper direction and cross check everything it writes and then test yourself.
How people use AI confidentiality boggles my mind.
See it like this:
We have now a very effective tool to differentiate between idiots and potentially thinking beings. 😂
Kinda true
While many people are scared about AI replacing them (sadly, often it's true) - I welcome all AI hype as long-term job security.
At this point I’m preparing myself to take very lucrative side jobs for consulting or rewriting very soon of businesses that based their applications on GPT-code and now realize that it’s not maintainable and stable at all.
Just lean back and enjoy the show guys. The next year will be amazing for us.
The reverse is even funnier
Hopefully the junior realizes that he could have used all that time writing the stuff themselves (even though it might not be perfect).
Say it with me: "perfection is the enemy of done"
I always heard it as "don't let good be the enemy of perfect", but I like this too
You have no power here!
The trick is not to laugh but encourage them to keep using AI / Vibe coding. Drop hints that your old company colleague is using X and Y AI code generation agents with "surprising" results.
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Who pay the chatGPT subscibtion ?
Easy to scam bumb people.
Likely they also own NFTs… 😂
Fun fact, that senior is actually 29years old
Yes, programming is not stressful at all.
Programming is fine. It's people who can't communicate what they want that's stressful.
I think my blood pressure rose slightly just from you reminding me of that fact.
looks like a standard employed developer
regular Theoden is when he's interviewing