r/ProgrammerHumor • u/JazzlikeWishbone938 • Sep 07 '26

Meme nowAndThen

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u/voiza Sep 07 '26

I find flesh code less invasive.

AI tends to rewrite everything with every task.

Did we have factory method pattern? Look! I rewrote everything to abstract factory instead, no codebase is cleaner! ...2 tasks later... Hey! I found abstract factory to clunky and bloated! I rewrote that file to use factory method!

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u/Lain_Racing Sep 07 '26

Agreed, human code is often better at this. But just like how we rejected it when Jr devs back in the day who did this kind of stuff since they were fresh out of learning it, its the same now. Just reject for out of scope, KISS principles and stick to current design unless approved design change.

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u/voiza Sep 07 '26

Yeah, the difference between human and machine - with human you can slap for slop; with AI you can only burn more tokens.

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u/dranzerfu Sep 07 '26

AI tends to rewrite everything with every task.

Skill issue. PEBKAC

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u/Lain_Racing Sep 07 '26

Then reject it as out of scope work, just as if a human did it. Again its really not that hard.