WesternInfidels comments on Even my own code sometimes.

[–] WesternInfidels@feddit.online 65 points 5 months ago* (13 children)

I go back and look at my old code and find it clear and beautiful, easy to understand, a pleasure to read. "Ah yes," I'll say to myself, "that approach was clever and elegant. Gosh, past me was pretty smart!"

I like to appreciate it in this manner. Because that way, for a moment at least, I can forget about how it doesn't actually work.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 25 points 5 months ago

But it would work beautifully, if it would work.

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world [S] 7 points 5 months ago (4 children)

That's what happens when you take your code from a Stack Overflow question.

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[–] Addv4@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Don't forget AI (that scraped Stack overflow) providing a slightly different basic solution, that usually works (at least until you think about improving it).

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world [S] 11 points 5 months ago

And that is before it hallucinates a package that has been typo squatted by malware authors.

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[–] Wirlocke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 5 months ago (1 child)

Am I the only one too paranoid to ever copy paste code from the internet and/or AI?

Code that I don't understand feels like a dead pixel when I try to picture the whole piece of software in my head. I even search for what all those one letter flags mean for a command or function before I feel confident in using it.

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