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if your skillset is tied to corporate bullshit, yourre better off buying lottery tickets
Write code like a human will maintain it
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Re: Write code like a human will maintain it
#12I absolutely will not write corporate code like humans are maintaining it anymore, because I don’t have any confidence actual humans will be maintaining it.
For personal projects, I can trust that I myself will be maintaining things so I still write things like it matters, but I do not extend the trust to others.
Re: Write code like a human will maintain it
#13That sounds like a good idea, but shipping 10x as many features and bugfixes sounds better. I started using AI with the best intentions. Checking everything before committing. Improving output by hand if it didn't quite follow the existing code style guidelines or variables were not named as well as they should be. Or if it did something sloppy or hacky. Now, AI GOES BURRRRRRRRRRRR! If the tests pass it's good to shi…
How long has "so far" been?
Re: Write code like a human will maintain it
#14That sounds like a good idea, but shipping 10x as many features and bugfixes sounds better. I started using AI with the best intentions. Checking everything before committing. Improving output by hand if it didn't quite follow the existing code style guidelines or variables were not named as well as they should be. Or if it did something sloppy or hacky. Now, AI GOES BURRRRRRRRRRRR! If the tests pass it's good to shi…
Yeah, the flip side of the article is that Fable level models can fix the majority of codebases created from the past 3 years and one shot it to a fixable state that is "human maintainable"
Re: Write code like a human will maintain it
#15There is an old quote: "Add comments to your code under the assumption that the next person to maintain it is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live"
The comments that drive the most homicidal behavior are outdated or inaccurate comments rather than no comments.
Both can be true at the same time, we can be equal opportunity murderers who treat lazy verbosity and hippester terse code.
Re: Write code like a human will maintain it
#16Humans have been writing unmaintainable code well before LLMs came along.
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If you don't understand the software you're creating (handwritten or not) you are ngmi.
Re: Write code like a human will maintain it
#18Humans have been writing unmaintainable code well before LLMs came along.
But LLMs can do it much faster and more consistently.
Re: Write code like a human will maintain it
#19I continually run codebases through different models to have them look for bad code smells like repeated code. That's been pretty effective. You do have to maintain over time or else you end up with a sloppy mess which I can only imagine compounds.
Re: Write code like a human will maintain it
#20Have a bit of a contrarian view on this tl;dr don’t write code for human consumption if you use AI; BUT you have to accept AI coding lock in and change how you work.
Funny enough, discussed this yesterday
Stop Optimizing Code for Humans https://youtube.com/live/eLn4-XA-KdQ?feature=share