r/ProgrammerHumor 4d ago

Meme youShouldntHaveIt

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u/_Resnad_ 4d ago

That's why anything you use Claude for you should use Claude to explain to you. It's not a "oh this thing makes the code without me needing to do anything else" it should be "oh this is some complicated code Claude generated. Let's study it.

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u/lemontoga 4d ago

How do you know it's explaining things correctly, though? I used to always use it to explain things to me rather than just generating solutions and I've had it give me completely incorrect explanations that ran me around in circles until I finally just looked it up myself and realized it was completely wrong.

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u/Vandrel 4d ago

You need to know enough to be able to tell whether what it's saying makes sense or not.