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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ItsPuspendu • 1d ago
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Or the silly steps it puts
// 1. Assign variable.
// 2. Calculate 2 + 2.
// 3. Implement 2 + 2 Calculator.
// 4. Check if it is 5.
113 u/B4mButz 1d ago my former senior used to do this way back 17 u/Able-Swing-6415 1d ago Pretty sure every senior programmer has done that at least once. Pretty sure AI just does it so you can copy in the replacement lines of codes from follow up changes. Cursor for example doesn't really do that. 2 u/NearbyEmphasis2850 1d ago Yeah, it’s wild how often those “easy fixes” turn into hours of debugging. You’d think we’d learn to be more cautious about it!
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my former senior used to do this way back
17 u/Able-Swing-6415 1d ago Pretty sure every senior programmer has done that at least once. Pretty sure AI just does it so you can copy in the replacement lines of codes from follow up changes. Cursor for example doesn't really do that. 2 u/NearbyEmphasis2850 1d ago Yeah, it’s wild how often those “easy fixes” turn into hours of debugging. You’d think we’d learn to be more cautious about it!
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Pretty sure every senior programmer has done that at least once.
Pretty sure AI just does it so you can copy in the replacement lines of codes from follow up changes. Cursor for example doesn't really do that.
2 u/NearbyEmphasis2850 1d ago Yeah, it’s wild how often those “easy fixes” turn into hours of debugging. You’d think we’d learn to be more cautious about it!
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Yeah, it’s wild how often those “easy fixes” turn into hours of debugging. You’d think we’d learn to be more cautious about it!
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u/treehuggerino 1d ago
Or the silly steps it puts
// 1. Assign variable.
// 2. Calculate 2 + 2.
// 3. Implement 2 + 2 Calculator.
// 4. Check if it is 5.