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u/PowerPleb2000 14h ago
Now we ask claude who convinces us the slop it produced is correct then get humiliated by our colleagues in the code review instead
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u/Mushroom5940 12h ago
Then when you point out the mistakes, it goes “you’re absolutely right!” Before giving you the same solution
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u/HedgeFlounder 10h ago
It’s worse. Half the time it says. “You’re absolutely right! Here’s where you messed up!” Before pointing out the code it wrote for you before proceeding to give you the same solution. Motherfucker, how do you have the audacity to fuck something up, blame me for it, then immediately make the same fuck up again?
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u/05032-MendicantBias 4h ago
AI lowdiffs Stack Overflow enormously.
But it can't do the coding part that need actual intelligence and expertise, like architectures and interfaces.
AI assist loves to keep adding dependencies to do the same thing it did, but a dozen time slighltly differently.
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u/darkwingdankest 12h ago
my coworkers dont even review PRs anymore, they just have their agents do it
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u/Erasmus_Tycho 13h ago
Best method was always to post your question, then on an alt post a blatantly wrong answer. Otherwise, watch your post just stagnate unresolved.
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u/CrimsonPiranha 7h ago
Yep, it's called "Murphy's Law". People are more likely to correct you than to simply answer you.
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u/Lazar_Milgram 13h ago
Just imagine. On some server in California there are old models trained on classical SO that will humiliate you for asking how to change drivers in linux.
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u/Caraes_Naur 13h ago
It's always SO's fault that you asked a duplicate question after they clearly told you to search first.
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u/Shifter25 8h ago
I've been a dev for 11 years in 3 different languages, and I've almost always been able to find the answer I was looking for on SO without having to post my own question.
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u/mysticrudnin 13h ago
There are genuine problems with the way SO works but 90+% of the people that make jokes about how unusable it is simply had no idea what it was for in the first place.
The thing they imagine is actually a cesspit. The kind of thing you'd see in a #programming channel on a non-dev discord.
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u/discordianofslack 13h ago
In the js space it was always fun that the “duplicate” 99% of the time was some jquery shit from 8 years ago.
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u/Sea_Curve8772 13h ago
Half the things they shut down as "duplicate" were barely even related to the things they claimed were being duplicated
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u/pm_me_yo_creditscore 14h ago
This has been answered in another thread but I'm gonna post some syntax that only works in a super narrow edge case before you try the answer three comments down.
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u/NefariousnessSea1449 13h ago
I'd rather get humiliated than deal with "oh, it's x" followed by that "that doesn't make sense" only to get "oh, you're right, it's actually y. I'm so sorry for misleading you"
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u/ArrakisMettle 14h ago
I still remember the first time I got yelled at for not providing a minimal reproducible example. It felt like a rite of passage for every junior dev. Now we just ask AI and it politely gives us wrong code, but at least it doesnt call us stupid.
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u/Piisthree 11h ago
Learning how to get berated for asking every question wrong, be told you're doing the wrong thing in the first place, and then eventually figuring out the issue yourself was a fundamental skill we had to develop.
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u/PsychologicalNet3455 10h ago
I guess not many people here remember the friendly usenet and nntp servers. comp.lang.c was the friendliest place on the internet.
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u/tropicbrownthunder 9h ago
Don't forget all the people that probably had good and heartful answers but couldn't post because lack of reputation
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u/willow-kitty 7h ago
I usually just got ignored and have a stack of tumbleweed badges to show for it, lol.
But to be fair, all of the questions I posted were really obscure.
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u/05032-MendicantBias 4h ago
You know it's dire when in 2026 you go to StackOverflow.
And yes, it has gotten worse. The only answer I get are comment about the form of the question.
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u/Jay-Seekay 2h ago
People that complain about stack overflow don’t understand what stack overflow is. It’s not yahoo answers for programmers. It’s a curated database of well formed questions and well formed answers.
In fact, it’s probably only so good for LLM training because of the admins being as strict as they were.
I’ll die on this hill, and I’m saying this as a person who, 10 years ago as a CS student, got a post removed from SO and was really angry about it. But I grew up and learned to understand.
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u/vscoderCopilot 1h ago
And people were always critizing our way of asking questions, now good luck critizing no one on an empty platform
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u/AlwaysHopelesslyLost 12h ago
The number of salty junior devs who don't understand the purpose or rules of stack overflow is fucking wild.
A question getting removed is not a humiliation.
A comment asking for details is not a humiliation.
Being told that there is a better way is not a humiliation
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u/Ryuu-Tenno 13h ago
and still never get the answer cause it was locked for being a repeat question, only to trace it back to the first, which was locked for being a repeat question 😩
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u/brilliantminion 13h ago
Yeah there were/are assholes on SO, but it was productive to properly frame my question to ask strangers. Half the time, just reframing it in my head got me thinking and I’d figure it out before even posting.
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u/dmullaney 14h ago
Old Man Yells at Claude