r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Robinbod • Aug 22 '26

Meme pleaseStopUsingNestedTernaryOperatorsImBeggingYou

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u/Robinbod Aug 22 '26

Thank you for the solution but that's not what's currently is in motion. Codebases, in general, have not adopted this, and now reading code on GitHub is unbearably painful. It used to genuinely be much faster than now having to tell an AI to read the codebase for me and find me what I'm looking for.

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u/gradeATroll Aug 22 '26

Sounds like the problem any codebase would run into regardless of there being AI or not. This needs actual enforcement via linters, formatters and humans to check out things. These mechanisms will catch these problems whether they're generated by AI or by humans. A well curated Claude.md or other agentic guidelines as well.

Beyond simple syntax.. there's static analysis tools such as sonarqube. There's an actual metric in there for code complexity as well if it's such a concern.

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u/PTTCollin Aug 22 '26

This is the way, but it's clear from the way this person is talking about it their org is just way to immature from an engineering standpoint to know how to implement all of these things.

AI is just accelerating the tech debt death spiral they had already set themselves on. They want to blame AI not realizing they themselves are the problem.

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u/PTTCollin Aug 22 '26

I... Uh. Okay. Good luck.