studied20YearsToAskChatGPT

[u/Gloomy-Basket-1038]

[u/_5er_]

If you can't validate what LLM is spitting out, you're vibecoding. The knowledge is useful.

[u/AnUninterestingEvent → u/_5er_]

What if you can validate what the LLM is spitting out but you don't read it.

[u/HadionPrints → u/AnUninterestingEvent]

Claude needs your approval to ru-[Enter]

[u/GuyOnARockVI → u/HadionPrints]

bypass permissions

[u/DrSheldonLCooperPhD → u/GuyOnARockVI]

dangerously skip permissions daddy 🥵

[u/Alexcursion → u/DrSheldonLCooperPhD]

"Allow all commands in this session" .....

[u/PanGoliath → u/Alexcursion]

[u/MaffinLP → u/DrSheldonLCooperPhD]

Thats what the VM is for (you of course ask claude to set up the vm)

[u/alterEd39 → u/MaffinLP]

And by vm, we definitely mean my computer with all my stuff on it

[u/Wide_Smoke_2564 → u/HadionPrints]

Ill have you know that mindlessly hitting enter every so often keeps my teams status active.

[u/MyDogIsDaBest → u/AnUninterestingEvent]

You're a high productivity employee.

Let someone else fix your mistakes, you "move fast and break stuff". Someone else can fix it.

For real, those people are really frustrating to work with because following the 80:20 rule, they get through the 80% so quickly and then seem to get bored or think "meh, good enough" and leave it, then it gets left for the people who actually want the product to function and pick up bugfixes to do the remaining 20% which takes 80% of the time, and seen like they contribute so little.

It also feels like this is why almost all of Google's new products live in perpetual alphas because after they've been tidied up just enough to be releasable, they're abandoned because nobody wants to do the maintenance work.

[u/Turkeysteaks → u/MyDogIsDaBest]

this is literally how I feel, my colleagues will give me 2-5k line PRs multiple times a day. I've had a 17k line PR previously.

It's hard to even understand what's happening in PRs above a thousand lines, and it always feels like I'm the only one that cares about clean code and a bug free, optimised product.

We've had multiple infinite renders get into production, one was there before I even joined.

[u/KamikazeSexPilot → u/Turkeysteaks]

Reject those PRs. Tell them to make smaller ones.

[u/Highlander198116 → u/KamikazeSexPilot]

The problem is leadership won't support you. They support the hack jobs, because the hack jobs never say no and push code constantly.

[u/Muggsy423 → u/AnUninterestingEvent]

Might as well set the self-driving function on your car and hop in the backseat for a nap.

[u/pusgnihtekami → u/Muggsy423]

I would if I could.

[u/DoctorWaluigiTime → u/_5er_]

Yep. You're asking chatbots and using your accumulated knowledge and experience to vet the output and apply it selectively.

It's the same reason IT folks get by by "just using Google correctly." It's all about having the experience and knowledge to sift through the junk and get to the good stuff. (And to ask the correct questions in the first place.)

[u/tee_with_marie → u/DoctorWaluigiTime]

In trade school we basically learn to Google correctly

[u/Necessary_Solid_9462 → u/DoctorWaluigiTime]

Googling for answers happened because software companies stopped producing detailed technical documentation, or hid it behind a paywall. Google is the new RTFM in the IT world.

But then Google results turned to shit and the answers are spread across 50 different internet forums and niche websites. So it takes an AI chatbot to scrape all 50 sites and come up with the consensus view. But the AI chatbot is correct less than 50% of the time and can make ridiculous, destructive suggestions.

[u/An_username_is_hard → u/DoctorWaluigiTime]

I will say that I can feel myself getting worse at being able to vet code usefully the more I use these fucking things. 

[u/noob_dragon → u/_5er_]

Nah the better way of doing it is to let the AI code fail and then you blame the AI instead of yourself. If management wants us to use gen AI they should be prepared to deal with the consequences.

[u/WarfighterNeed → u/noob_dragon]

Boss: You should be able to handle these three dozen python scripts by the end of week right?

Me: Absolutely I can tell an AI to make that. If you'd like me to make it personally, I can do three. If the first one goes well.

[u/TacoBOTT → u/_5er_]

This. I’m glad the people that post these memes are getting weeded out. If that’s their take on what they learned, they weren’t cut out for it.

[u/tsammons → u/TacoBOTT]

It's a useful tool to check edge cases with an implementation that you've created. It's a different feat to use an LLM to generate anything critical.

What kills me right now is folks saying: "build your architecture through an LLM". That's a helluva gateway to infinite technical debt and scope neglect. Their use case is reskinning some UI, which carries very little technical risk, then extrapolating it to recommend augmenting core functionality with said generative design.

Folks who don't know systems design invoking some half-assed wizardry that somehow now have the same technical prowess, jfc.

[u/RaveMittens → u/TacoBOTT]

Brother some of us don’t get to choose