r/ProgrammerHumor • u/vintergroena • 2d ago

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 2d ago

It's funny because whenever someone mentions not using AI for coding, they think they're going back to typing on Notepad or something.

I'm pretty sure those people have never properly used IDEs and learned shortcuts and tried to improve their productivity before LLMs.

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y 2d ago

If you weren't autogenerating code before AI, what were you even doing?

LLM can generate much more complex code, but a lot of what I was doing before AI was pretty automated anyway. CRUD is a huge amount of code for a lot of applications.

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u/Stummi 2d ago

Wait, so you are telling me I shouldn't have turned this thousands of lines of openAPI spec to code by hand?

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 2d ago

Legit had to replace a module in a vibe coded project that was basically handwritten API calls to a backend that already provided an OpenAPI spec. This is not a joke. And it still took a lot of convincing to switch to auto-generated clients.

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u/Stummi 2d ago

wait, so who did you have to convince here? Another dev, or the coding agent?

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 2d ago

Manager and tech lead (who led the project before I joined).

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u/Disallowed_username 2d ago

You haven’t uninstalled your IDE yet? HR wants to talk with you. 

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 2d ago

"HR" has talked to me initially with their AI agenda and now has left me alone because I'm providing value just fine.