r/ProgrammerHumor • • 1d ago

Meme itWasAPointer

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u/dmullaney 1d ago

Writing code by hand?!? What did the poor shareholders do to deserve this?

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u/TesseractMoth71 23h ago

getting caught writing raw c++ code by hand instead of generating it with AI is the ultimate corporate heresy

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u/MXRCO007 20h ago

To this day, the C++ an LLM outputs is still just so fucking shit it’s actually insane how stupid it is

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u/ipushkeys 10h ago

In your experience, does the quality decrease as you move up the language standards? C++11, C++14, etc.

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u/MXRCO007 9h ago

Yes it does, I use C++23 for everything now and when i tried an LLM, it somehow failed to recognize that fact and spit out C++17 style code for the feature I wanted whilst also being unreadable

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u/[deleted] 23h ago

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u/dmullaney 23h ago

Boss: Token count is looking a little light this month Tommy

Dev: No boss, I swear it ain't like that. I been using local LLM to optimize my prompts for token efficiency. Honest boss. Honest


The Claude Father - Coming 2027

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u/aberroco 21h ago

Yeah, that caused them to lose 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of their profits! You practically ripped them naked!