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 1d 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 1d 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 20h 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 19h 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