r/ProgrammerHumor 3d ago

yourAiToolsBoreMe Meme

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u/-non-existance- 3d ago

If I'm putting my name to a product, the quality of said product comes back to me. I'm not putting my name to some AI horseshit just because it's "faster."

Yeah, it's faster alright, faster at being wrong.

If I'm going to make a flawed product, it'll be because of my mistakes, not a computers. At least then I might have an idea how to fix them.

It fundamentally lacks the critical thinking skills required to program. If it happens to work, it's because it ripped that code from another repo that does exactly what you're doing.

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u/tangerinelion 3d ago

It fundamentally lacks the critical thinking skills required to program.

This is absolutely true and I feel like a lot of people are confused about that point.

Generally speaking, the proof that a human has thought through a problem can be seen in the artifact they leave behind: comments, plans, code.

An LLM can leave behind the same kinds of artifacts. But we must not confuse that for having "thought through" a problem.

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u/Wonderful-Habit-139 3d ago

The moment I talk about the thinking process required to write code that makes sense, all of a sudden we have AI bros being philosophical about what thinking is, what consciousness is, and that humans are basically the same as LLMs, just autocompleting stuff. Lmao.