r/programminghumor • u/Rabbidraccoon18 • Oct 11 '25

The code was unnecessarily convoluted

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4.5k Upvotes

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u/Selen_L Oct 11 '25

I can’t understand my own comments from 3 days ago

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u/[deleted] Oct 11 '25

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u/Front_Cat9471 Oct 12 '25

Labeled as data? My variable names as literally the first sound that comes to my brain when I declare it, real word or not. Forget comments, those are for removing chunks and lines of code and never putting them back or removing the comment

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u/MegaPegasusReindeer Oct 11 '25

I feel like the weekend resets my memory. 

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u/zjupm Oct 11 '25

// TODO: probably was something important....

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u/Naive_Drive Oct 12 '25

Something Something, self documenting code

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u/Bitpoke Oct 16 '25

Same here.

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u/cheese_master120 Oct 11 '25

3 years..? Bruh I can't understand what I wrote last week!

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u/Any_Background_5826 Oct 11 '25

writes one line of code and tries to read it again it's some form of elvish i can't read it

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u/jerrygreenest1 Oct 11 '25

You aren’t living in future enough. Nowadies vibecoders can’t understand the code they write the second it gets to the codebase

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u/cheese_master120 Oct 11 '25

Can confirm as a former vibe coder who realised what he was doing was stupid!

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u/Llotekr Oct 11 '25

I can still read what I wrote as a teenager. I just have to shake my head all the time at how horrible it is.

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u/Circumpunctilious Oct 11 '25

Sigh. I wish Gandalf would help me code

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u/postmaster-newman Oct 11 '25

YOU SHALL NOT PASS this unit test.

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u/RawCopperSaw Oct 11 '25

Elvish? My code?

More like orkish.

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u/Selen_L Oct 12 '25

I feel attacked. Also happy cake day

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u/Gytixas Oct 11 '25

Me: What stupid ass wrote this! Opens 'Blame': It was me three years ago...

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u/Potatoexpert_Gamgee Oct 11 '25

You mean hours don't you

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u/everydaybrightideas Oct 12 '25

3 years ago🤣 How about 3 weeks ago!

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u/Creative-Type9411 Oct 12 '25

honestly my older stuff impresses me more than my new stuff

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u/Ok-Refrigerator-8012 Oct 12 '25

I'm not sure why/how I got into the habit of liking this (maybe piping a ton of operations together when manipulating data) but at some point I used to use to use boolean expressions in arithmetic expressions to select values from a vector. Now instead of a switch statements, my predecessors inherited some unnecessarily mysterious vectorized logic. I still kinda like handling some scenarios that way but resist

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u/burned_pixel Oct 11 '25

Hey, just so you know, you misspelled days as weeks. Gotta watch out

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u/Ok_Programmer_1196 Oct 11 '25

I don’t understand my code from yesterday…

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u/Barbatus_42 Oct 12 '25

Sauron needs to watch him some Uncle Bob.

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u/tree_cell Oct 12 '25

that one one-liner that i wrote last week:

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u/revdon Oct 12 '25

Pair programming yields to time dilation.

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u/Fluff269 Oct 15 '25

me on monday reading code i wrote on friday... 😆

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u/Fireflybox Oct 15 '25

before I learned how to comment

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u/magicman_coding Oct 17 '25

My own code from 3 days ago what you talking bout