This is absurd.

Alright now let’s all be careful about who we’re describing. I just haven’t gotten a haircut in a while…

• Program-1.5-DeleteThis.zip
• Program-1.6-ScuffedDontUse.zip
• CanWeDeleteThesePlease.txt (last edit 8 months ago)

Inspired by a small collaboration project from a few years ago.

I believe you that genAI is being used for code suggestions, but I wouldn’t call it a genius.

This is anecdotal but over the last couple of years I’ve noticed Visual Studio’s autocomplete went from suggesting exactly what I wanted more often than not to just giving me hot garbage today. Like even when I’m 3-4 lines in to a very obvious repeating pattern it’ll suggest some nonsense variation on it that’s completely useless. Or just straight making up variable and function names that don’t exist, or suggesting inputs to function calls that don’t match the signature. Really basic stuff that any kind of rules-based system should have no problem with.

They must be a very timely people!

It still requires some effort. If I was in the mood to invest effort into something I wouldn’t be doom scrolling on Lemmy.

English is the C++ of spoken languages.

Oh good, I’m right on track then!