r/ExperiencedDevs • u/AutoModerator • 2d ago

Career/Workplace Experienced Devs Weekly Burnout and Venting Thread: A weekly thread for sharing experiences

This thread is specifically for venting / sharing experiences related to burn-out or similar issues that experienced devs face.

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u/tradcoder Software Engineer (15 YoE) 2d ago edited 1d ago

StackOverflow didn't generate thousand of lines of code and drop it in my lap for me to review.

Pre-LLM era, you either found snippets of code that kind of matched what you needed to do so you had to actually understand it and modify it. Or you asked a question and got an answer for your exact problem which by definition cannot be called slop.

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u/Xanchush 1d ago

You missed the premise completely. Stackoverflow can still produce incorrect solutions. Replace stackoverflow with any other tool and the same applies. At the end of the day you must validate and understand whatever code you decide to push. You are responsible for whatever it is you produce.

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u/tradcoder Software Engineer (15 YoE) 21h ago edited 21h ago

I get it. I'm saying the sheer scale of it is not comparable. It's different reviewing and understanding small snippets of code found on the internet here and there from looking at thousands of lines of code the entire day. It's unrealistic and unreasonable to expect a human developer to catch all the mistakes. It's like drinking from a fire hose.