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[–] [email protected] 56 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

Watching the serious people trying to use AI to code gives me the same feeling as the cybertruck people exploring the limits of their car. XD

"It's terrible and I should hate it, but gosh it it isn't just so cool"

I wish i could get so excited over disappointing garbage

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Ai code is specifically annoying because it looks like it would work, but its just plausible bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 days ago (4 children)

And that's what happens when you spend a trillion dollars on an autocomplete: amazing at making things look like whatever it's imitating, but with zero understanding of why the original looked that way.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well I've got the name for my autobiography now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

"Specifically Annoying" or "Plausible Bullshit"? I'd buy the latter.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 days ago (3 children)

All programs can be written with on less line of code. All programs have at least one bug.

By the logical consequences of these axioms every program can be reduced to one line of code - that doesn't work.

One day AI will get there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The ideal code is no code at all

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

On one line of code you say?

*search & replaces all line breaks with spaces*

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

All programs can be written with on less line of code. All programs have at least one bug.

The humble "Hello world" would like a word.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Just to boast my old timer credentials.

There is an utility program in IBM’s mainframe operating system, z/OS, that has been there since the 60s.

It has just one assembly code instruction: a BR 14, which means basically ‘return’.

The first version was bugged and IBM had to issue a PTF (patch) to fix it.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can fit an awful lot of Perl into one line too if you minimize it. It'll be completely unreadable to most anyone, but it'll run

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