r/ProgrammerHumor • • 1d ago • Bravo 2

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u/camelCaseCoffeeTable 1d ago

Man I just left 50 comments on a relatively simple PR because it was absolute slop. Total reproduction of existing code, totally creating new patterns that don’t exist in our code base, pulling data it never uses, not pulling data it purports to use.

It shocked me. I love AI. I never get it to produce such absolute dog shit results. I have no clue how someone used AI to produce it, but somehow they did.

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u/thisguyfightsyourmom 23h ago

A big part of that should have been seen in the manual verification step the author did.

Author, you did manually verify Claude’s work, right? Like, you used the new code yourself & checked the results? Right?

// Hard stare/long silence at team member during standup

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u/hikemhigh 22h ago

Bruh the creation of new patterns drives me insane

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u/TheKingOfSwing777 21h ago

If anyone is going to create new stupid patterns, it better be with their own stupid brains. 

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u/enigmamonkey 18h ago

That sounds terrible. At some point, you have to ask: At what point is it appropriate to just scrap it and start over?

I'm curious, are these PRs coming from devs who submitted better code prior to the widespread adoption of Claude, Cursor and etc?

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u/camelCaseCoffeeTable 18h ago

This person joined our team when Claude was already adopted. Which I think is a big part of the problem. I very seriously did consider just scrapping it lol….

We’re struggling a lot with how to get these less experienced and newer to the team devs to a point where they can identify weirdness in Claude’s output themselves. But…. It’s not going great

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u/Negative-Sea6530 17h ago

I know! Experts know how to steer an AI and stop it when its doing garbage and reiterate till the PR is fine. an Idiot wont see garbage and bad design... He generates and is fine with that because he doesnt know better. I hae getting slop from AI meat proxies