this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
1243 points (98.5% liked)

Programmer Humor

22440 readers
2818 users here now

Welcome to Programmer Humor!

This is a place where you can post jokes, memes, humor, etc. related to programming!

For sharing awful code theres also Programming Horror.

Rules

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I actually don't write code professionally anymore, I'm going on what my friend says - according to him he uses chatGPT every day to write code and it's a big help. Once he told it to refactor some code and it used a really novel approach he wouldn't have thought of. He showed it to another dev who said the same thing. It was like, huh, that's a weird way to do it, but it worked. But in general you really can't just tell an AI "Create an accounting system" or whatever and expect coherent working code without thoroughly vetting it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I'll use it also often. But when the situation is complex and needs a lot of context/knowledge of the codebase (which at least for me is often the case) it seems to be still worse/slower than just coding it yourself (it doesn't grasp details). Though I like how quick I can come up with quick and dirty scripts (in Rust for the Lulz and speed/power).