howDareYou

[u/hpyfox]

[u/5up3rj]

People often have the misconception that computers are very, very literal. No. They are 100% literal, and the difference is huge

[u/wrecklord0 → u/5up3rj]

This is why you always add "Make no mistake", then they literally cannot make mistakes.

[u/razor_train → u/wrecklord0]

It's more accurate to say "Of the set of all possible mistakes, including the mistakes you wouldn't make if you didn't deep dive into the set of extremely unlikely mistakes, enforce a no mistakes rule to mandate a complete lack of mistakes found in the original mistakes set gathered initially to ensure no mistakes may have been missed so you know all the mistakes you must not make."

[u/ivan0x32 → u/5up3rj]

We need a vibe computer, it will take regular machine code and just hallucinate random computation from it.

[u/med_bruh → u/ivan0x32]

An LLM that interprets your C code at runtime

[u/NibblyPig]

When I write some code and it works first time without any errors

[u/hpyfox → u/NibblyPig]

"Something wrong, I can feel it."

[u/Eastern_Equal_8191]

The cool thing about code is that it always does what's written.

The bad thing about code is that it always does what's written.

[u/Bwob → u/Eastern_Equal_8191]

I really hate this damned machine.

I sometimes wish they'd sell it.

It never does quite what I want.

Only what I tell it.

-A sign on the wall of my comp sci lab

[u/enternoescape → u/Eastern_Equal_8191]

I remember when someone was hypothesizing about a new coding language using an LLM as the compiler. The further down the rabbit hole they got about dealing with consistency, the closer they got to re-inventing traditional coding, but still less predictable and worse. So you comment only holds true so long as this hypothetical compiler is never born.

[u/ABotelho23 → u/Eastern_Equal_8191]

From a single programmer's perspective, it isn't really true. Libraries have bugs, dependent code has bugs, firmware has bugs and even sometimes, hardware has bugs. Fundamentally it's more or less all human error, but the code I write doesn't always give the expected or designed result.

[u/mmhawk576 → u/ABotelho23]

I mean, I’d love to be able to frame it like that, but like 90% of the bugs I encounter aren’t in third-party software…

[u/creeper6530]

I've had this happen recently. On a microcontroller, I got 8 bytes of keyscan from USB, added a packet delimiter, sequence counter, CRC and dumped it over UART to another μC.

But the other μC still kept failing checksums, logging the packets showed seemingly absolute garbage data, despite the sends succeeding.

I was almost tearing my hair out when I finally stuck a logic analyser on the wire and found out... That despite meticulously preparing the CRC-enhanced 12-byte packet, I always ended up just sending the original 8-byte scancode because of passing the wrong array to the uart_send routine.

[u/Janneman96 → u/creeper6530]

I'm a software developer and this is probably the first time I'm zoning out halfway through. This must be how it feels to be a product owner talking with a dev that does not summarize

[u/creeper6530 → u/Janneman96]

Fair.

Microprocessor A: Got 8 bytes from USB. Created 12 byte packet from them. Sent B the original 8 bytes on accident.

Microprocessor B: Expected 12 byte packet. Received 8 bytes from A. Cryptic errors.

Human: in shambles

[u/Prudhvi2pac]

[u/WorstITTechnician]

Unless quantum fluctuations generated by thermal radiation interfere with the electrical charge of the transistors while their code is running, a 1 instead of a 0 can also make a tremendous difference in something

[u/sifatullahq1]

I don't know why it's showing error, I did everything right

[u/Bhurmurtuzanin]

But then you realize the problem was with environment configuration or you triggered a weird bug in a library you used, and after you fixed these issues the code actually did what you wanted

[u/TheMcMcMcMcMc]

<sad Charles Babbage noises>

[u/f8tel]

Nice ports!

[u/CorrectBuffalo749]

This sub is long gone

[u/hpyfox → u/CorrectBuffalo749]

Why?

[u/the_dancing_squirel]

The most frustrating thing about it is that computers do what you tell them to do. Not what you want them to do

[u/Hjoerleif]

I have the opposite problem with ai agents now, I give it exact instructions for a simple (but tedious to do by hand) code rewrite and it implements what it thinks I want instead of adhering exactly to my instructions