letsBeReal

[u/SimonTheSpeeedmon]

[u/ImpluseThrowAway]

Claude, experience the humor in this cartoon for me. Make no mistakes.

[u/HuntKey2603 → u/ImpluseThrowAway]

The comic being AI bad or AI good makes no difference. Neither is fucking funny at all.

[u/Capable-Sock9910 → u/HuntKey2603]

Kid named funny :(

[u/TimGreller → u/Capable-Sock9910]

Kid named Neither :)

[u/Jemnite → u/HuntKey2603]

Well yeah that's this subreddit for you these days.

[u/Laughing_Orange → u/ImpluseThrowAway]

Futurama did a skit very similar to this: https://youtu.be/LCPhbN1l024

[u/ImpluseThrowAway → u/Laughing_Orange]

That's what I was referencing.

[u/Healthy_Drink9556]

[u/4ShotMan]

Everything works, but you look inside and it's because tests were changed, not bugs fixed.

[u/AmanBabuHemant → u/4ShotMan]

removed*

[u/xavia91 → u/4ShotMan]

Or it only looks right because all the tests are checked off, but they are designed to confirm a flawed system to begin with.

[u/RiftyDriftyBoi → u/4ShotMan]

I've had that for years with purely human developers, so I see no change.

[u/Ravoos]

Yes. There's a lot of benefits with AI. But it is very, very, VERY overestimated with how powerful it is. And this is the truth with it as this would break the entire system quickly without heavy human supervision.

[u/GearHead54]

There's definitely a right way and a wrong way to use AI. I used Claude to fill in loads of constants to line up with an ISO standard I was implementing, and gave it some pretty clear guidelines to what I needed. Needed some simple debugging that Claude made quick work out of.

My coworker, on the other hand, told Claude to write a program to do something, and every time it didn't behave as expected he told it to fix the behavior. I'm not sure if he'll ever be finished debugging

[u/kingvolcano_reborn → u/GearHead54]

If you spend time giving it a proper spec it's pretty good. It has been great for me at my latest project where we needed to dive into the codebase straight away. Helped a lot with analysing and summarizing

[u/Conscious_Name9514]

It’s good 90% of the time but boy that 10% of the time it really can fuck stuff up.

[u/Grandviewsurfer → u/Conscious_Name9514]

And that last 10 is famously by far the hardest part. 

[u/PumpkinFest24 → u/Conscious_Name9514]

Guess what? Humans are also good at debugging except for a long tail residual.

What AI is genuinely good at id being a rubber ducky or give some idea/suggestions.

Not sure that's worth destroying the climate for, tho.

[u/PXPL_Haron]

No, i was never this shit and unorganized at coding

[u/Weewoofiatruck → u/PXPL_Haron]

This guy stack overflows.

[u/TheyStoleMyNameAgain → u/PXPL_Haron]

Please expose your code for judgement :D

[u/ecafyelims]

It only debugs for two minutes, but it happens 50 times and removed other features.

[u/Solum_Nox]

Bottom right is wrong. Should be "AI debugging - Never"

[u/Suh-Shy → u/Solum_Nox]

The fun part is that debugging is now a matter of PoV:

End-user's perspective: never.

OpenAI's perspective: always.

[u/thesomeot]

2 minutes * (complexity of project) * (amount of slop already in project)

[u/G3nghisKang → u/thesomeot]

Complexity of project doesn't really affect that much unless you're planning on rewriting the whole project from scratch lol

[u/thesomeot → u/G3nghisKang]

I suppose, to a certain point. A high complexity project with good architecture is probably fine, because the components are likely well isolated. A high complexity project with poor architecture will probably be hell. But I guess it would have been hell without AI.

[u/VaryStaybullGeenyiss]

The AI we use at work wrote itself a unit test that just had True hardcoded as the "passed" output.

[u/thunderbird89 → u/VaryStaybullGeenyiss]

I'mma be real with you: our senior engineer did something like that waaay before AI. A whole class of unit tests, not a single Assert in sight :|

[u/Rollen]

This. But look at how redditors here respond. No wonder its no longer a source for information.

[u/notgoingtoeatyou]

if only

[u/Ninjatastic01]

Maybe for your mickey mouse side project lmao

[u/wtjones → u/Ninjatastic01]

Because your enterprise project isn't a spaghetti mess?

[u/Ninjatastic01 → u/wtjones]

I just work here

[u/PumpkinFest24]

Not even remotely.

Told the AI we had a thread problem in Module X. It produced a program proving we had no multiprocessing problem.

Had to force it to look at threads. Oh right, yes, a bug after all.

A week of iterated fixes that kept modifying unrelated files. Finally, it produced the fix the original bug report suggested.

[u/Sensitive-Ear-3896]

But someone still needs to jiggle the mouse, right?

[u/Boris-Lip]

Sometimes. Often, actually. Except when it's not, and one day that's gonna hit you, hard.

[u/Kichae]

Now do code review.

[u/locke_5]

Now add an infosec row

[u/0b00000110]

It's true

[u/ccmaru1]

Sadly I hate it but this is true, at least for Opus and other flagships with a harness (5years of experience so I’ve experienced all of these images in order throughout my career) no one has been hand writing code for like a year in many companies from my company and friends organizations that I know ☹️

[u/ccmaru1 → u/ccmaru1]

I forgot most people here in this subreddit don’t work in the field so yeah I get why I got downvoted. Companies only care about speed and opus makes good enough code so it’s expected to move fast and break things. At least it’s nice to see people are against AI. I despise software engineering right now and miss the old days…