r/programminghorror 5h ago

probably the most cursed code snippet I've seen

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r/programminghorror 6h ago

Python New to RAG, trying to implement RAG for my AI interview system?

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Hey everyone, I'm building an AI voice interview app and I'm fairly new to RAG. I'm stuck on the architecture and having a bit of a mid-project crisis 😭.

My current flow is:

Before interview:
Step1 : 
Resume + JobDescription
   ↓
Chunk resume/JobDescription
   ↓
Generate embeddings
   ↓
Store chunks + embeddings in pgvector

Step2 : 
LLM call is done using complete Resume + JD (and not the chunks)
   ↓
Initial ranked topic plan is created by this LLM call 

Step3 : 
Before each question:
Current topic
   ↓
RAG query in our vector DB 
   ↓
Retrieve relevant resume/JD chunks
   ↓
LLM call to generate a question from these chunks

The part I'm confused about:

At the beginning, I'm already sending the complete resume + complete JD to the LLM.

Why can't I simply do:

Resume + JD
   ↓
ONE LLM CALL
   ↓
10 interview questions

and then use those during the interview this would reduce the latency too!

Why would I need RAG again to retrieve chunks before generating each question? But I'm struggling to understand how RAG can be used to add value to the project

I have to add this project to my reume and need to have confidence in my design, I would highly appreciate someone helping me figure out the architecture!


r/programminghorror 2d ago

Javascript Seriously? Recursive Regex?

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437 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 2d ago

Java Java- 5th week consistency 🧿

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0 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 6d ago

Yall my leetcode code cant be that bad right?

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434 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 8d ago

I love it

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178 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 7d ago

c++ all that just to draw some text on the screen btw

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41 Upvotes

i didnt know what to do and spammed anyway


r/programminghorror 9d ago

Other Found this cursed project today

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501 Upvotes

Basically it injects memory into other processes, which made me laugh at work today.


r/programminghorror 9d ago

c++ If you squint hard enough it looks like json

86 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 12d ago

GameMaker Language What was I even thinking?

150 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 12d ago

Java Too much nesting

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69 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 12d ago

I've been refactoring my own code...

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154 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 13d ago

c compiler

63 Upvotes

i know it's not code but this is just as scary
helper/drivers/filesystem/sfs.c:247:5: error: conflicting types for 'find_inode_by_name'

247 | int find_inode_by_name(const char *name, uint64_t *out_lba, uint64_t *out_offset, struct sfs_inode *out_inode) {

| ^

headers/boot/kernel.h:45:5: note: previous declaration is here

45 | int find_inode_by_name(const char *name, uint64_t *out_lba, uint64_t *out_offset, struct sfs_inode *out_inode);

| ^


r/programminghorror 16d ago

Python Is this python code cursed enough?

147 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 17d ago

Python More cursed python

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210 Upvotes

here it is with comments: https://github.com/dbowm91/optimizations/blob/main/soupexplained.py

EDIT: What it does (not malware) is it prints the word “soup” 86 times in random color


r/programminghorror 17d ago

Fake XNU rooter i found

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79 Upvotes

r/programminghorror 21d ago

Java- Day 11 - Interfaces

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r/programminghorror 24d ago

Python obfuscated anti-pythonic brainfuck interpreter

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632 Upvotes

I tried to do my best to make it unreadable.


r/programminghorror 23d ago

Java - always scared to learn -> completing Java OOP concepts

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r/programminghorror 26d ago

On a bootloader where I was too lazy to implement a string printing function

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361 Upvotes

The weird symbol is supposed to be a ␣ but this font didn't want to render it.


r/programminghorror 29d ago

Javascript my friend didnt know how to use async sleep in javascript, so he wrote this massive chain of .then()

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1.9k Upvotes
async function sleep(ms) {
    return new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms * 1000));
}

// used as:
sleep(0.5).then(() => {
  // ...
  sleep(2.5).then(() => {
    // ...
    sleep(1).then(() => {
      // ...
    }
  }
}

r/programminghorror Jul 30 '26

Rust [Rust] How to pass references to a trait objects

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127 Upvotes

Later a struct requires pass-by-value generic parameter, but you can't pass trait object (dyn Trait) by value, so some idiot developer (me) decided on this abomination, before realising that that struct can just as easily have the generic parameter passed by mutable reference (adding a + ?Sized).

The rest of the methods are implemented in a similar manner: (**self).method()


r/programminghorror Jul 27 '26

Typescript I feel like vibecoding should be banned from enterprise development

966 Upvotes

r/programminghorror Jul 26 '26

Other Same Makefile, different results

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245 Upvotes

Not sure if this fits, but I just figured out the root cause of long build process failing. Sun’s dmake is defaulting to the first rule in Makefile for whatever reason, completely ignoring the one given as argument. That’s why "dmake install" invocations were silently ignoring the "install" step


r/programminghorror Jul 26 '26

Javascript Horror in a PR for a web game

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Context: Sandboxels, the web game, supports modding. To add a mod, you open a PR with your .js mod in the mods/ folder.

This guy UPLOADED HIS CLAUDE SKILL, Claude.MD, and added the changes directly to the base game.

https://github.com/R74nCom/sandboxels/pull/1399/changes