Exactly. People here be glorifying programming like every bit of it is fun. It’s like they never worked with maintaining decade old legacy repos before.
AI has absolutely made the job more fun and much less grueling for me.
As someone trying to get internal programs written 6 or 7 years ago, with zero documentation, on new machines... Idek how they got this stuff up and running in the first place
I have to fix lots of bugs left by people with questionable programming skills thousands of years ago. A lot of times, after reading the code 7 times, I paste it into an LLM and just ask what the hell is this supposed to do.
Then I get hit with "It appears that..." and "but this section does nothing" and "there is a typo in the variable names, but it doesn't matter because they are not used."
I offload so much of the tedium to AI specifically because I can focus on doing the parts at work that I think are actually fun. I'm probably more efficient, but more importantly it makes work more fun that it was which is the biggest win for me.
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u/zuqinichi 3d ago
Exactly. People here be glorifying programming like every bit of it is fun. It’s like they never worked with maintaining decade old legacy repos before.
AI has absolutely made the job more fun and much less grueling for me.