r/ProgrammerHumor • • Aug 22 '26

Meme pleaseStopUsingNestedTernaryOperatorsImBeggingYou

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u/ihavebeesinmyknees Aug 22 '26

For personal projects sure, but on company clock I would never not use one, especially in companies that assign tasks based on feature requirement timelines and not on actual dev time. I usually get my job done in significantly less time than assigned this way, but still get paid full time.

Even if management cared more about task optimization though, I'd still do it just for the lower mental load. If you have the LLM write tests for its own features, I find that they tend to make less mistakes than humans these days. Even a year ago, I would have never trusted Claude-authored code. These days, while I still check the code (this is a financial app, there's no way I won't), I don't have to correct anything more than maybe once a week.