"Most software engineers are facing an identity crisis bordering on depression."
  • farmgineer@nord.pubEnglish
    1 month

    I was doing a code review this week. There was nothing wrong with the code in terms of structure or performance, but it was doing this really weird operation with an ID after DB insert. I asked about it and the author was like “yeah, that’s weird; I don’t know why the AI did that. I’ll remove it.” My dude, I know you can write good code. Don’t be lazy!

    • terabyterex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 month

      i dont understand that. i use ai for help reading through old stuff or to help me remember how tondo a thing i havent done in two years but blindly copy pasting blows my mind.

      • saltesc@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 month

        Same. I also code up about 50% of stuff so all the structure is there, effectively as guardrails, before using AI. Then prompting it instructions that are effectively the solution, so it doesn’t come up with its own.

        Then, read through it all, replace things that could’ve been done better, and test.

        On average it’s maybe 15-20% quicker than manually coding the whole lot. Try skip any of those steps and the chances of it blowing out increase to the point I just end up doing it all anyway and it’s taken twice as long because of it.

        It’s alarming when people don’t even check.