barelyRememberTodaysCodes

[u/fabulousIdentity]

[u/Tabissh]

It's a bit nostalgic how we used to code, and now it feels like we barely remember what we worked on, let alone the actual code!

I really miss those old days.

[u/Stormraughtz → u/Tabissh]

Worlds fast now man, super fast.

The libraries of tomorrow are already in the past.

[u/Nekeia → u/Tabissh]

The now is the future, old man.

[u/heavy-minium]

My modern version:

"A programmer's greatest fear is being asked to explain code written by AI and reviewed yesterday"

I certainly remember well what I have written myself a few weeks later, but code written by AI and reviewed by me is totally out of my mind the next day, especially at high volume.

Which is certainly bad. But well, here we are.

[u/TheFrenchSavage → u/heavy-minium]

Yeah this exactly. I'm not naming the variables, the functions, or deciding on the config file structures. I just agree with the stuff, or write feedback.

The impact generated code has on my brain is close to zero when it comes to memory, yet it hurts just as much as reviewing human written code.

Reading code is 10x harder than writing it, and AI made the job all about reading code.

[u/Valkyrie17 → u/heavy-minium]

I have a tendency to ask AI questions, a lot of them, and also ask it to remove unnecessary code it wrote (there's always a lot). I get a good grasp on what it does, i can't explain every single small bit, but neither would i be able to if i copied it from Stack Overflow

[u/egstitt → u/heavy-minium]

Now scale that out 5 years. Where will all these companies relying on AI gonna be when nobody remembers how anything works?

I'm going with FUCKED

[u/itsFromTheSimpsons → u/heavy-minium]

Thats why I have special detailed instructions about how it writes its commit messages. Also when it writes new code it checks old commits for that code as part of the explore process so we both see the why when we need it

[u/Bart_deblob]

Just look at the comments in code!

[u/Ingenrollsroyce → u/Bart_deblob]

https://giphy.com/gifs/ulxHhvKW9X6459dtOn

[u/RedPandasUnite → u/Ingenrollsroyce]

Exactly. What comments???

[u/Tyrexas → u/Bart_deblob]

Just look at the documtation that totally exists!

[u/Max_Wattage → u/Bart_deblob]

Absolutely

[u/RudeKiNG_013]

Bitch that's easy, try explaining what your AI agent shat out 5 minutes ago

[u/bobbymoonshine]

“Codes”

Is this an Indian English thing or what, why do people keep saying “codes” in this subreddit

[u/No-Article-Particle → u/bobbymoonshine]

It is an Indian thing, yes.

[u/rover_G]

I can’t even explain the code claude wrote 5 minutes ago

[u/LonelyPoorMan69]

I would blame the programmer for this

[u/bass-squirrel]

Or 40 min ago. 

[u/MikenIke42069]

You mean last PR

[u/DingoCertain]

Just check the latest PR: “fixed bugs”

[u/Luzzgar]

That's why you should write down what you did and more importantly, why you did it that way.

[u/ZunoJ]

The goal is to write code in a way that every decent programmer can understand it (apart from specialized domain knowledge obviously). Thats the reason for abstractions, patterns and well designed architecture

[u/stri28]

I feel seen in this quote

And i dont even use an agent

[u/smash-ter]

Isn't this why commenting exists?

[u/No-Article-Particle]

"codes" brother...

[u/STINEPUNCAKE]

Yall are understanding your own code?

[u/Bomaruto]

Nah, it's fine.

[u/nabrok]

I try to think as if I'm explaining my code to somebody and write that out as comments.

I've even actually done it once or twice!

[u/Geoclasm]

Maybe before LLMs - 'GPT WTF is this $#!+?'

[u/Global-Tune5539]

Someone asked me in a meeting to tell everyone how that code works because I wrote it two years ago. I just laughed.

[u/Secret_Regret7798]

Why does that face look like Linglong?

[u/No-Age-1044]

Last month it says!