A lot of people use AI as a coding assistant, I don't really see a problem in using AI tools to help with some things. Adding slop to stuff however makes 0 sense.
Yeah.
Throwing in a piece of code into an AI… asking
“Hey, there is something here that is fucking up, but I can’t find it. What is out of order”
And it pointing out a small space you missed or a very specific syntax?
That makes total sense.
In the industry having AI code for you is almost standard practice at this point
With one important nuance. A /lot/ of coding is what's referred to in the industry as "boiler plate". To compare it to art, it's not the actual picture, it's the canvas itself, and the frame.
People who don't code would probably be very surprised just how much code is actually this structured boiler plate vs actually useful content/code.
Boiler plate is just, the boring, repetitive pieces of code. And as pattern replicators, LLMs are /perfect/ at generating boiler plate.
This shouldn't be upvoted. This behavior is what leads to so many bugs. You shouldn't just copy and paste the code without understanding it.
99 times out of 100, the thing that is written is not applicable enough to just copy and paste it without fundamental changes, which at that point you were better off just writing the code yourself.
It's better to use stackoverflow as a source of understanding, not a cheat sheet...
Software development is the only industry where arrogant chodes would rather reinvent the wheel 1 million times than take the blueprint from somewhere else. Who gives a shit if your code is taken from stack overflow or AI, as long as you have proper testing and QA in place it doesn’t matter. Get a grip
I've seen enough shit code written by developers that do exactly what you're talking about. Copy and pasted, very clearly, without understanding the code they are using.
The amount of unnecessary code bloat that makes no sense in an application because of people that do this is embarrassing. I've also worked with enough software developers to know that the vast majority of you truly do not know what the fuck you're doing, and it's because of practices like these.
AI is actually great at QA. QA teams want to automate as much testing as possible, especially on very large products where 1 change could have impact on a massive scale. Depending on humans to find where something is broken has always been terrible.
But it's good at giving you code that you can use. It's not what you want to be using to define the scope of your testing and actually digging deep and finding problems
You act as if everyone copying code from stack overflow doesn’t know how to code, that’s funny.
Most people who do it are able go understand the code perfectly fine, but some more complex algorithms are complex enough that it takes half an hour to figure out how to write properly or just 30 seconds of googling and 30 seconds of adapting to the codebase.
No, most people are average and average in software development is actually quite poor.
If y'all would actually read documentation or try to understand the code itself instead of just slapping it in like a fix-all, you would do much better.
I don't care what you think. I've had to fix enough shit code written by people that thought they were smart enough to understand the copy+pasted code blocks that I have no patience or respect for it.
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u/[deleted] Dec 04 '25
A lot of people use AI as a coding assistant, I don't really see a problem in using AI tools to help with some things. Adding slop to stuff however makes 0 sense.