Gamedev using D here, my main gripe with programming isn’t AI, but that I decided to go with my own engine, and now there’s barely any documentation on graphics API use that isn’t the OpenGL manual, as I’m encountering very interesting bugs recently (textures disappearing, texture glitches, etc.), while most article nowadays being about how I wasn’t supposed to learn any programming, but instead art, so I could create the next Undertale, Touhou, etc. all alone, and it would be truly my game with my true intentions.
Some people are often asking “but what about these other tools”, when I criticize AI. IMHO, some of the tools that made game development more accessible also made it more atomized, since you have less need for a programmer nowadays, with some tools not even requiring “classical” coding, but is visual in nature instead.
I mean, what I can say that chatgpt is it’s still a tool but cannot start solve advanced programming projects yet. Sure it knows syntax and programming structure but if you know programming concepts and critical thinking then you’re still programming, you just don’t have the in depth knowledge of the language.
is everyone here a complete beginner? how do so many people relate to this? as soon as you need to do anything halfway interesting the thing just confidently spews nonsense.
There’s always been a tendency of folks reading programmer humor to be beginners rather than seasoned devs. I think, there’s just more of those in general, as there’s lots of fields where entry-level coding skills are good enough…
Nobody’s really serious on a meme sub. Maybe check your humour meter. It must be broken.
What do you think the point of this post is, then? Comedic hyperbole only works if there is still some truth to it
The joke is that there are some people who truly believe chatgpt is a better programmer than humans. It isn’t that programming.dev is chock full of beginners who seriously believe the same.
At my workplace eng management won’t shut up about AI and vibe coding.
Nope. 10 years experience at dicking around and collecting a paycheck. ChatGPT helps me dick around better.
Sometimes the more nonsensical it looks the less likely someone will bother taking their time to actually code review it.
My goal is keeping a job. Not getting work done. Then I just get more work to do.
Edit: I don’t know why I expected people on this sub to actually be able to tell what a joke was.
The trick with humour is it has to not be as dry as my mother’s cunt.
At least give us a “/s” so there’s no doubt bro.
You’re probably right. I should assume the autism level is above average here… My bad. But your mom’s cunt is pretty wet when she rubs it on my face. Not your best analogy.
Edit: no /s to be clear. Your mom’s cunt is dripping. But it’s good that you don’t know that.
I just some a lot of Lemmy are neurodivergent and do in fact require /s.
Which is actually halfway true, the other half being a more international crowd that aren’t on the same page as whatever perspective you’ve got. That said, I got the joke and second you on spending more time with my feet on my desk while the boss pays me for my 20 minutes of work.
Thanks. I was trying to match some dry humor with the frustrations the relationship with wage labor frustrations and my usual balance of alcohol. I’m glad it hit for someone.
I actually appreciate all the downvotes and comments. I’ll take the “make people think”. Which is why I think my comment got so many replies. Enjoyable either way.
When I used to do image and signal processing for embedded systems in C and C++, AI was useless. Now that I do backend web development in Python and Ruby, AI is better than me. It really depends on the problem area and how many sample code and answers are out there for it to steal from.
I do a ton of Powershell scripting, and AI is either a half competent programmer, or someone let grandpa respond with the syntax from nineteen dickety two
And as soon as you enter corporate stuff, LLMs are useless again, because most things are integrated into existing ecosystems which LLMs don’t know and/or libraries are only used for closed source code.
Really? I had an app that would autogenarate time sheets for work in Google Sheets. I decided to minimise API calls by doing a single call to Google Drive then parse the HTML and reupload. Not a big Python project but ChatGPT hit a wall pretty fast on that one. Though, tbf the documentation was suprisingly opaque so I suppose that goes back to your point.
That project also produced my finest pile of spaghetti code since I had to account for stretched cells in the HTML parsing. I still have a piece of paper with my innumerate math scribbles. The paper makes sense to me. The code does not.
Vibe coding gave me polio
When I needed to pick up on some basics, it actually did help but ultimately not as much as actual guides and tutorials written online. This image of a chimera certainly matches the kind of Frankenstein code I was getting.
That said, when I was having some very interesting ideas about making automated code in R, it did make for a good sounding board. You don’t need to Google when everything in R has documentation but you do when you’re combining libraries in unique ways to automate 98% of the stupid shit you do at your data researcher job (e.g. can you look up in our database how many students pick their nose during philosophy class on a Friday?)
ChatGPT is a better programmer than you
Unfortunately very true 😭
It’s great for getting off the ground in a language you’re unfamiliar with. But a recipe for technical debt when used long term. You’re inviting spaghetti code with some real hair pulling bugs.
Well sure, but it’s also good to give you a rundown on various patterns and options. Like any tool it’s only as good as the wielder
Unfortunately, the people pushing AI are the same ones selling recreational flamethrowers
Most tools aren’t actively detrimental to use, though. It’s like a hammer where the handle is covered in spikes. Even if you’re a genius and know how to hold it without cutting your hand, most people would just use a different hammer. And I’m not going to let that toolsmith off the hook, either.
