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Please spare me from having to get in touch with that shit I wrote back then (feddit.org)

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[-] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 35 points 5 days ago

Am I the only one who likes looking at my old code? Generally I feel like it's alright.

Usually the first project when I'm learning how to use some new language or environment is super-shitty. I can tell it's very bad, usually I don't like interacting with it if I have to make changes, but it's still not overly painful. It's just bad code. And that one exception aside I generally like looking at my code.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

That means you're getting dumber

[-] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

Certainly possible

I'm also genuinely a little bit alarmed looking back now at my pre-LLM code and seeing the quality vs. the with-LLM code.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

There's nothing stopping you from wasting your time with the bullshit generator.

[-] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 7 points 5 days ago

I thought I had it worked out, how to sort of strike a balance so I can keep my focus intact and let it be helpful without wasting time constantly correcting its stuff or shying away from actually paying attention to the code. But I think my strategy of "let the LLM generate a bunch of vomit to get things started and then take on the correct and augmentation from a human standpoint" has let the overall designs at a high level get a lot sloppier than they used to be.

Yeah, you might be right, it might be time to just set the stuff aside except for very specialized uses.