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[-] kayzeekayzee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 229 points 1 month ago

Tech guy invents the concept of giving instructions

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 122 points 1 month ago

With clear requirements and outcome expected

Why did no one think of this before

[-] wtckt@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

Who does that? What if they do everything right and it doesn't work and then it turns out it's my fault?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 128 points 1 month ago

It would be nice if it was possible to describe perfectly what a program is supposed to do.

[-] orvorn@slrpnk.net 86 points 1 month ago

Someone should invent some kind of database of syntax, like a... code

[-] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 month ago

But it would need to be reliable with a syntax, like some kind of grammar.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 27 points 1 month ago

That's great, but then how do we know that the grammar matches what we want to do - with some sort of test?

[-] Natanael@infosec.pub 23 points 1 month ago

How to we know what to test? Maybe with some kind of specification?

[-] maiskanzler@feddit.nl 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

People could give things a name and write down what type of thing it is.

[-] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago
[-] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

We don't want anything amateur. It has to be a professional codegrammar.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

What, like some kind of design requirements?

Heresy!

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 8 points 1 month ago

Design requirements are too ambiguous.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Design requirements are what it should do, not how it does it.

[-] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago

That's why you must negotiate or clarify what is being asked. Once it has been accepted, it is not ambiguous anymore as long as you respect it.

[-] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

I'm a systems analyst, or in agile terminology "a designer" as I'm responsible for "design artifacts"

Our designs are usually unambiguous

[-] drew_belloc@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago
[-] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I think our man meant in terms of real-world situations

[-] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

And NOT yet another front page written in ReactJS.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Oh, well, that's good, because I have a ton of people who work with Angular and not React.

[-] xthexder@l.sw0.com 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This still isn't specific enough to specify exactly what the computer will do. There are an infinite number of python programs that could print Hello World in the terminal.

[-] drew_belloc@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I knew it, i should've asked for assembly

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 3 points 1 month ago

Yeah but that's a lot of writing. Much less effort to get the plagiarism machine to write it instead.

[-] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago

Ha

None of us would have jobs

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 11 points 1 month ago

I think the joke is that that is literally what coding, is.

[-] Lime66@lemmy.world 76 points 1 month ago
[-] And009@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 month ago

Who even makes these comics? Is it like Simpsons

[-] zerofk@lemm.ee 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Randall Munroe. You may know him from such gems as xkcd 3472 and 6548.

[-] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 month ago

Getting a bit ahead of yourself, we're only on 3070 so far!

[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago
[-] Lime66@lemmy.world 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)
[-] Venator@lemmy.nz 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

You have be more patient, those ones will take a while to load.

[-] aeshna_cyanea@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

Web browsing 101: if you see a hyperlink on social media, you can click on it and then look around to see if it contains more links with useful information, often in the header or footer of the page. Here I found one for you: https://xkcd.com/about/

[-] Shareni@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Human communication 101: sometimes humans ask a question without expecting an answer, it's called a rhetorical question

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[-] undefinedValue@programming.dev 28 points 1 month ago

OP just chatting with themselves so they can screenshot it?

[-] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 month ago

That is some telegram group and both messages shows from left with profile icons(which got cropped). The screenshot person sent the last message which shows double ticks

[-] andrybak@startrek.website 4 points 1 month ago

In the desktop client the positions of bubbles also depend on the width of the window.

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 month ago

Great attention to detail!

[-] Talia@feddit.it 2 points 1 month ago

That's just a fake conversation in general, look at the timestamps between the messages from the interlocutor. Several minutes to type a complete sentence?

[-] StellarSt0rm@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Hey, i can take a few hours to reply sometimes :c

[-] pufferfisherpowder@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Could be a group chat but we all know they're a twat

[-] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

I wrote a shell script like this (it admin , notna dev) for private use.
The prompt took me like 5 hours of rewriting the instructions.
Don't even know yet if it works (lol)

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