"What did it cost?"
"The yearly energy consumption of a median household and $1,000"
"What did it cost?"
"The yearly energy consumption of a median household and $1,000"
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupére
+55653, -937? That is not beauty, even if it all "worked".
I would say a few new lines are OK if they at least improve the readability of the code.
But given that AI was doing the work, I would say it is even less readable now.
Slinging random quotes at Jr. devs works best if you have one for every rebuttal:
Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler. — Albert Einstein
I've never seen a "refactor" create substantially more lines of code.
Ive done a few of those, but they were all preparatory refractors, pulling out bits of code to turn them into standalone functions that are only used once because my next PR uses them, and then adding unit tests for those new functions. -100 or so lines of code, +300 or so when you take into account the new docstrings, etc.
(The secret to doing these preparatory refractors is to actually do them after writing the "next" PR so you're not unnecessarily refactoring stuff you're going to touch.)
Its probably 10 paragraphs of comments or something, for some reason AI really loves commenting on everything
If it's adding that many lines, it's not refactoring. It's just adding slop.
The best refactors always remove more lines than they add. This is a horrifying ratio if no new features were included.
Strange, I always add lines to make it more cohesive, SoC, DRY, and generalized so it is easily extensible.
Yeah, adding that many lines does not sound like a cleanup to me. Unless it's mostly adding unit tests.
I would think that modularizing a big block of code would have to add more lines, would it not?
It's like "fuck this codebase, we delete everything and start over".
It is wild that Anthropic decided to go with “Claude”, as in “Claude Shannon”, as in the guy who formally proved that information degrades every time it passes through a channel that can’t represent it in a mathematically reversible way.
If you can’t theoretically produce the original code, given the “refactored” code… congratulations, you have lost information.
+55653
Says everything I need to know about the change.
I bet it's like 5 different versions of the same thing. The exact opposite of modularized.
Are we going to repeat the same joke for each new model released....

Hold the phone. Do you mean to tell me, that the screen shot of a post I'm looking at is not an original funny joke created by the purported author, and is in fact an iteration of some other meme created by someone else?
What is wrong with people. Someone should call the people down at "the internet" and get all of this straightened out.
Yes, hello, I'd like to speak to the mayor of the internet. It's about an urgent and very important matter.
Hello! I’m the Mayor Of The Entire Internet. What’s the matter, concerned citizen?
Sadly, no. Not everything on the internet is original. I know, it's tough to hear that. I was heart broken too.
and is in fact an iteration of some other meme created by someone else?
People have different opinions on what a "meme" is but for me the iteration part is what actually makes it a meme.
Yes. Also:

Are these even real people or bot accounts other AI companies use to shit talk each other
Dead internet fact.
You require every post and content created and shared by people to be pure originality devoid of any influence from anything else?
If the movie Tron were true, or The Matrix, and code was alive and sentient, things like this would be horror on the level of the Star Trek: TMP transporter accident.
It's beyond spaghetti code. We need a new word for it: Cthulhu code
Codethulhu. Though that name isn't mine. I grabbed it from an old story about a company that kept a code base composed exclusively of decompiled Java.
Sounds atrocious
Aha, found it: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Call_of_Codethulhu
(It's worse than I remember)
There's an entity in the Cthullu-verse that turns everybody that looks at it crazy because of its sheer complexity, isn't there?
Have enough monkeys on a keyboard and eventually they'll write a working program
I don’t recall this spell proc-ing while in Albion.
You sound like such a fucking loser it is incredible.
AI fanatics will never cease to amaze me in unpleasant ways.
Based on your comment history, you need a therapist.
So strange when I see replies to ml comments. I've had all those servers blocked since I started using Lemmy on all the instances I use.
I never notice when a user or a thread comes from ml until I say something that is real-world uncontroversial like "Stalin had some people murdered" and get flamed for it. I've never really felt the need to block servers on Lemmy but ml sure makes me think about looking up how to do it.
Bury your head in the sand so the scary communists don't accidentally convert you!
Ah yes, thank you sh.itjust.works user for the weaponized false concern. A tactic employed by shitbrain reactionaries with absolutely nothing constructive to add.
Was it me calling AI bros losers that made you look for a way out?
As an exercise to see what it would do, sure. But this just isn’t how one should go about this.
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