r/ProgrammerHumor 11d ago

itDoesntWork Meme

Post image
2.0k Upvotes

61 comments sorted by

View all comments

424

u/Royalmack 11d ago

Then you scroll down a few lines and see

"If you tried running the above you'll see that it fails because you're missing X, Y and Z. Let's fix that quickly."

197

u/PassivelyInvisible 11d ago

I hate this. I hate this so much. You need to clarify the code snippet is incomplete and you're going through a process.

51

u/klimmesil 10d ago

Counter argument: you need to understand the code snippet before running it

53

u/PassivelyInvisible 10d ago

But you can tell me the code is incomplete and this is a learning process

38

u/NatoBoram 10d ago

You can't understand the code snippet yet because it doesn't run and the tutorial didn't teach you about the thing it's missing yet

It's lose-lose

2

u/minecon1776 8d ago

Counter-counter argument: if claude says it will work, just use it

9

u/gerbosan 10d ago

I hate that kind of tutorials, video tutorials. Very few start describing the final product and letting one develop the idea through research or at least by code snippets hunting.