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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago (29 children)
[–] zqwzzle 87 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I might be in the minority, but I get more excited about the idea of maintaining/working on some creaky old legacy code base than I do about the idea of starting a new project from scratch.

[–] zqwzzle 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is there a generator for these?

[–] zqwzzle 8 points 1 month ago

There are a few from a search, this one came up with a GitHub repo. https://arthurbeaulieu.github.io/ORlyGenerator/

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

Just use the paint, internet person

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Bu-but we're programmers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you have more of these memes? I'd like to see more.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Here's some more.

Shared this with my team just recently. Guess there is a lot more of these brilliant edits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nice! Thanks. :3

Is there a bigger resolution btw?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

There should be a "saving thirty minutes in reading documentation by spending two days debugging a GPT generated method"

[–] zqwzzle 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

From the last time this came up I got most of them from this guys collection.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/11139658

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Nice collection. Thanks! :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you for this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, me too! But, only if I have the autonomy to improve things where I can. Otherwise, I just find it demotivating

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I enjoy this too, but it’s kind of rough when you’ve inverted control, teased apart unnecessary coupling, updated dependencies and backed everything with unit and other tests, but then your colleagues are too scared to code review it.

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

Feeling of deleting lines > Feeling of adding lines

[–] masterspace 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I find that working on production code with well defined use cases and requirements to be the most satisfying, and working on new proof of concept / demos / marketing tools to be the least satisfying.

So on balance, more of the legacy projects I've worked on have fit those criteria than the new builds, but the couple of new builds that had well defined use cases, and no legacy code to deal with were the absolute best.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

also, your own code after you've spent time away from it.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago

That is the strangest thing, going back into a program and thinking "what the hell was that guy thinking?" and then realizing it was me.

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

What fucking ass for brains engineer wrote this dogshit code?!?!?! I'm gonna scroll back to the header find out who wrote and give a piece of my mind to... myself x.x

[–] zqwzzle 11 points 1 month ago

git blame giveth and git blame taketh

[–] zqwzzle 5 points 1 month ago

The time varies but starts at about 1 day for me…

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