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[-] Psyhackological@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago

I hope he didn't use Claude because oh boy it maybe costed more than a real developer.

[-] AlboTheGuy@feddit.nl 32 points 6 hours ago

The fallback is gonna be hilarious, the codebase rewrote by AI? With basically no considerations of business need and system capacity?

I can't wait for the humiliating rollback

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I bet you their "10x coder" can't describe what a unit test is nor its purpose

Then again, can you even unit test AI generated slop with how often it's rewritten?

[-] Tamo240@programming.dev 1 points 2 hours ago

Unit tests are exactly for code that is often rewritten, because it ensures that whatever interface still behaves the same, regardless of the implementation. This a large portion of the point of unit tests: not for testing the initial implementation but confirming that any subsequent implementation behaves the same.

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

In a normal scenario yes, but "vibe coding" rewrites whole swaths of code. It's like painting detail with a bucket. Trying to keep up with it seems like a sisyphiean task

[-] python@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Using AI to write Unit tests is one of the few use cases I somewhat understand, but even that turns out horrible with improper supervision. I reviewed one Pull Request once where the testing was so horribly cobbled together and nonsensical that I rewrote those tests by hand (after asking the person I was reviewing to fix it twice and them only making it worse by letting their AI rewrite them)

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 18 points 6 hours ago

A vibe coder not even out of high school replaced your entire codebase

👁️👄👁️

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Notice the most cracked developer "Arno" is a white guy with very expensive equipment who was raised in that environment for more than a decade?

CS not beating the white supremacy allegations any time soon in the West.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 2 hours ago

You can be a white guy with expensive equipment, and still you'll have to work since at most the age of 7 to land somewhat decent job.

Where does that leave black folks?..uhm, capitalists don't care.

[-] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

But not his job right? He alone is far too valuable to be replaced by an IDE. /s

[-] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago
[-] Aganim@lemmy.world 17 points 7 hours ago

That's why he's a cracked developer. Already broken under the heel of his capitalist overlord.

[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 hours ago

I only want to see ai remove code while keeping tests passing. until it can do that what value does it bring

[-] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 27 points 10 hours ago

The democratization of technology is a double-edged sword.

For every improvement in UX and lowering of a once impassible barrier of entry, we seem to inevitably gain a massive number of “eXpErTs” who can suddenly stand upon the now much lower skill floor.

Shortly thereafter seems to be a destruction of the general reliability of whatever field these “eXpErTs” flood - usually a field which used to be inherently cryptic and had complex prerequisites just to begin operation within, let alone master.

Like… it makes me almost miss when “using a computer” meant you had to understand how to browse a directory in DOS…

Because at least then you literally couldn’t begin to operate in the field unless you could wrap your head around understanding the basics of syntax.

Now you can just have an entire legion of dullards misspell or misspeak 30% of a malformed question to some random free LLM that still has trouble telling you “how many Rs are in the word strawberry,” and have it confidently fart back out a wrong answer that they will then copy-paste into a paper or article which will then be added to the pile of growing misinformation currently stuffing a frighteningly expanding part of our collective knowledge base.

[-] 0ops@piefed.zip 3 points 3 hours ago

One of my biggest pet-peeves right now is tech companies selling paid, proprietary "low code/no code" software as "democratic". Especially when writing code was never the hard part of software development, it's designing usable, scalable, and efficient data structures and algorithms.

[-] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 8 points 9 hours ago

Yeah we're gooing to need to go back and clean up the internet from 2022-50. Because of the scam they call AI it's only going to get worse.

[-] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 31 points 10 hours ago

There are two kinds of Linkedin posters - those who are open about being trolls and those who aren't.

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[-] Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 38 points 11 hours ago

Can we fast forward to the Hard Lessons part because it's going to be hilarious

[-] temmink@feddit.org 6 points 7 hours ago

As an AI native he knows how to prompt, for example to always include "don't make errors" and "make sure to follow security best practices". It's really easy once you know.

[-] filcuk@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 hours ago

All of those senior devs that got sacked will be laughing for the rehire salary increase, assuming their company doesn't fold on the ai code house of cards.

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 15 points 10 hours ago

aI-nAtIvE tEnX

What an obnoxious buzzword bro

[-] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 56 points 13 hours ago

250k lines of ai generated code means he didn't do anything

[-] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 5 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

250K lines of code in a month means about 10k lines per day.

For an 8 hour work day (since they donchild labour, it might as well be 16, but let's keep it simple) that is about 1000 lines of code per hour, so about 20 lines of code per minute. Give or take

Unless you trust the output of AI implicitly without checking anything, ever, there is no way on this earth this can be done by a single person.

Then, an actual senior developer would be required to evaluate each method he wrote, but I'm sure this 10 year old child with zero experience will suffice

So basically, this guy just uses a child to tell chatgpt similar to vomit out text that likely may not even compile, let alone do what it needs to do correctly, with the right security protocols, all with the underlying infrastructure.

All of this is bullshit and that CEO should be arrested for child labor

[-] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago

Yeah like whoopty doo you created 250k lines of cruft that someone competent will have to sift through later

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 26 points 12 hours ago

Well, what he did was bringing something into the code base that might blow up the whole company one day in the future. Becuase what he didn't do was thoroughly review the code that the AI made.

[-] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 112 points 15 hours ago

red flag number 1: measuring progress in lines of code

[-] iglou@programming.dev 65 points 13 hours ago

redflag number 2: not seeing the issue with accepting 250k lines of code generated by AI supervised by a teenager without a software engineering background

[-] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 hours ago

Wdym man the guy has 10 years of experience

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 2 points 3 hours ago

10 years using the restroom all by themselves. Very impressive!

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[-] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 30 points 13 hours ago

Are we just going to ignore that the guy posting this looks 14

[-] buttnugget@lemmy.world 12 points 12 hours ago

Just write the AI to accept non deterministic outcomes, slap it on its ass, and push it into production.

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