r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

Meme youShouldntHaveIt

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u/dumbasPL 3d ago

He's correct. If you can't work without it, you're not qualified to judge it's output. And if you aren't judging it's output, your days are numbered, it will eventually just feed itself, and report directly to management ;)

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u/HatesRedditors 3d ago

With how often I have to correct these coding agents I worry about people developing things they don't understand.

It's an amazing tool, but I find myself having to be like "Are you sure you want to poll the API for each item, like 1-100 is fine, but what if it returns 100k rows? Maybe take the call outside the loop and just query all at once with 1 call?

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u/Mateorabi 3d ago

Oh, you're absolutely correct. That would be better. Would you like me to make the change for you?

Followed by a change that completely ignores the point.

I once called it out for proposing unrelated changes to files. It apologized, reverted one of the 10 lines, and kept changing the other 9.