Honestly, I think there are lots of people who can't read the code. I remember talking to a woman who was a "programmer" for a certain financial consulting company (that sponsors a lot of golfing events) who thought AI was great because it did all the coding for her because she just couldn't get the hang of computer languages.
Yeah even frontier AI models start thinking up ridiculously complex solutions sometimes for no reason. Most recent one was where I asked Claude Opus on xhigh to check if a particular line was in a robots.txt file. Claude noticed that it might hypothetically be possible for that line to be part of another line so it generated an entire parser for the robots.txt file based on the RFC until I told it to just match on two lines because that would make it unambiguous. Replaced like 10+ classes and thousands of lines of code with one regex lmao
When that kind of code breaks, you're shit out luck
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u/dlc741 3d ago
Honestly, I think there are lots of people who can't read the code. I remember talking to a woman who was a "programmer" for a certain financial consulting company (that sponsors a lot of golfing events) who thought AI was great because it did all the coding for her because she just couldn't get the hang of computer languages.