The obfuscation is a little too obvious. The people need something which defends their job security but still passes code review.
That’s like 90% of Java that uses spring.
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#32Am I the only one that found the more explicitly named definition way easier to read? Sure the definition name was too large, but the inner variables were great.
I read that feature on the list and immediately thought "I bet that improves more code than it harms"
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#33What (presumably!) was built as a joke will actually help me a lot. For my side-project (devscreen.io) we have to make lots of realistic coding tests and pull requests with bugs in them for candidates to work on as part of a technical interview. It's actually more time consuming than you'd think to intentionally insert bugs into code in a way that isn't super obvious, so thank you!
I think use cases like this are the right ones for generated code from language models. I'm pretty sure the vast majority of training data is more buggy than not and literally writing the code is only half of what it takes. The other half is comprehension of the problem it solves which is usually missing from documentation at the level of mere snippets.
Take something perfect and internetlify it. It was basically trained on exactly that data.
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#34Awesome. Evil ideas for improvements. Random typos in class name, function names, comments, such as: inheritance -> enheritance class -> clas cannot -> cannont Pick related words: person -> user, account, customer Random swapping plural/singular users -> user Append "Class" to classnames. example: User -> UsersClass Insert rant comments about, politics, religion, profanity.
Don't forget homonyms:
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#35I don't need this extension. My code already looks like this. LOL
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#36Here comes AI threatening to take my job away again.
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#37Add irrelevant comments has real world use for some students who are required to comment all of their code when submitting their work.
I’ve been trying to push students in the direction of fewer, better comments but it is a lonely hill to die on.
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#38It is not worse than my code. Better luck next time AI.
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#40I ran it and it made my code better.