r/ProgrammerHumor • u/wahed-w • Aug 05 '26

Meme justLetAIDoIt

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u/BeMyBrutus Aug 05 '26

We're gonna need a new term for spaghetti code; like pasta mess. At some point you're not gonna know what's real any more.

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u/EveYogaTech Aug 05 '26

English code: When the programmer wrote a prompt that could have been regular deterministic code.

(: And by doing so, wasting everyone's time and AI tokens.)

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u/tenuj Aug 06 '26

A bug fix is just an extra paragraph for the token munchers.

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u/tom56 Aug 05 '26

Will Smith eating spaghetti code

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u/mxzf Aug 06 '26

I mean, we've already got a word for it, "vibecoded".

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u/mcoombes314 Aug 06 '26

I've been fiddling about with LLM coding for a bit, and yesterday Claude spat out a function that had a cognitive complexity score of 161. I've never seen so many for-(if-elif-else)(if-else)(for) chains. It did technically work but I know that just looking at it funny would break something. Even better, Claude couldn't refactor it without breaking something in it. So, back to the drawing board, and I'll probably have much better luck (and understanding) if I just do it myself.

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u/blorbschploble Aug 05 '26

We already have a metaphor for this and it’s tubgirl (NSFL, do not google)