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Comment by Twirrim

There's this amazing rhetorical technique called hyperbole. Compared to what I'm getting from co-workers, and in code bases I'm subjected to these days, what I used to have to deal with was a masterpiece.

I've waded through unfamiliar code at 3am trying to figure out just why the hell things broke this time more times than I can care to remember, particularly trying to tease apart the ways that code has organically grown compared to the original intent. If I'm subjected to one more piece of "spooky at a distance" injected behaviour code I'll probably scream loud enough to be heard half way across the country.

It's still just leaps and bounds more readable than what people are slopping together (I do have some co-workers that have been extremely tightly focused on avoiding "slop" with their AI and doing a lot of tuning, and it's certainly preferable to the ones that haven't)

parent Twirrim 23 days ago

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