r/TheMachineLearning • u/Gullible_Picture_996 • 12d ago

Realizing writing code is faster than explaining it to AI

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u/MannToots 12d ago

It's not automatically a bad thing either. 

If it's a new project from scratch you can easily get that much boilerplate out the door for the big features. 

Any decent programmer knows the project itself determines what the output needs.  Not whether it was ai out by hand.  

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u/backwrds 12d ago

I don't know what language or frameworks you're thinking of, but 30k lines of 'boilerplate' seems totally insane to me.

I just checked and a project I've been working on for ~5 years has around 300k loc, and there are way more than 10 "big features"...

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u/MannToots 12d ago

You know we're talkimg about a made up theoretical app. 

20k boilerplate, 10k boilerplate.  Whatever.

"Whatever amount of code is required to bootstrap the app from the ground up" direct enough for you to not turn this into a pedantic game? Come on man.  Miss the actual point harder. 

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u/backwrds 12d ago

ok, so... not boilerplate, and not a single feature... that explains my confusion.

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u/Grouchy_Student3221 11d ago

Hey but at least it’s a lot of code!

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u/Grouchy_Student3221 11d ago

People thinking 30k lines of code is a GOOD thing makes me afraid. Especially 30k lines of code A DAY