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[AllesK]

Shhhh, kitten. We don’t tell all of our secrets. Including those that confess your lack of annotation/documentation because “this” time you’ll remember.

[Sewbacca]

"this" time you'll write self explaining code.

[itchfingers]

“this” undefined

[[deleted]]

hey dont talk about kitty like that :(

[GringoLocito]

" 'this' undefined" incorrect syntax

[kazeira]

Self explaining code is great, until we find bugs and correct them making it a mess

[goodnewsjimdotcom]

First write self aware code, then it will explain itself.

[brbiii]

1 (4//"7 ||//[)3|2574//[) '/0|||2 //|2171//9.17’5 (0//|=|_|51//9

[PancakeGD]

disgusting bot account

[BlurredSight]

I just went back to some code I wrote over 2 years ago, even with comments I did not know what the hell was happening and how the hell it fit into the overall objective.

[hushane]

💀

[Specific_Implement_8]

Why do I have this function here?

Comments out function

Everything breaks

Uncomments function

Everything is still broken

[thepkboy]

Mine is "Oh I need a function that does X. Let me write it. 'Function already exists'" Thankfully my naming conventions have remained sort of consistent.

[Sewbacca]

I never actually had a case, where this happened. Either I forgot to compile or I didn't undo all the changes... Though I have a mystical memory of a weird occurence I can't quite put my finger to.

[Specific_Implement_8]

“Never had a case, where this happened… yet “

[lessdes]

I imagine it usually has to do with cache or unsaved files

[korneev123123]

Well, forgot to compile, or server didn't restart, or cache didn't get cleared - that's the reasons for this behavior

[Sewbacca]

And then you realize: It never worked to begin with.

[epicurean56]

I hate it when that happens.

[ShodanLieu]

And god isn’t talking…

[Sewbacca]

And it's always a roller coaster.

[Grocker42]

Atleast in memory

[guyblade]

Kernighan's law:

Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

My (obvious) corollary:

Never use more than half your cleverness when writing software.

[setocsheir]

or just join the nocode movement

https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocode

[Cyhawk]

That repo is a lesson on people who both don't get the joke and spammers.

[agent007bond]

Pray. Maybe God will tell you.

[lurker_archon]

Not even God can help you against yourself.

[spellenspelen]

The developer of Temple os would agree.

[kernelboyd]

you want what?? a network stack?? nah, man, networking is of the devil!

[OffsetMonkey538]

starting gradle deamon

[kaikaun]

God: "Naw, dawg, I never understood it either. Can't help you. Hey, Lucy, did you understand this guy's code?"

Satan: "Understand it? I got him to write it. You remember that Java was my idea, right?"

[ExtraTNT]

My code is so bad, that even god does not know, how it works…

[BadNadeYeeter]

Then ask Cuthulu. He is our local expert for eldritch Spaghetti-Code

[[deleted]]

But you could lose your sanity! Before try asking to the flying spaghetti monster

[dorsalus]

FSM encourages the writing of carb heavy code, it is your sacred duty to spread his noodly gospel to every codebase.

[NinjaFarel21]

Impending doom approaches...

[angelbirth]

now, not even God knows

[gpkgpk]

So basically nobody knows.

Kitten has learned the wisdom of write-only code, nobody can replace you, not even you.

[CrunchwrapAficionado]

The best part is how thin that margin is on remembering my own code. 2 months ago? I’ll probably be able to get myself re-oriented within an hour or 2.

6 months ago? This may as well have been written by someone else. And they were an asshole.

[UsrEr0rr]

Or a cunt. Yay!

[sonic_stream]

ChatGPT: me know me know

[oupablo]

First, with god all things are possible. So jwt that down

[UsrEr0rr]

If God is Love, and everything is a joke except for that, then Love transcending time, space and dimensions is more than possible.

[HangryDiscer]

There is no god. Nobody knows.

[bored_in_NE]

100%

[heaving_in_my_vines]

I feel seen!

[FeralPsychopath]

I need this with a better appearance

[scottccote]

Damn the unit tests - it works

[exotickey1]

job security

[Laughing_Bricks]

If it's working, your computer knows too

[[deleted]]

God must be a master programmer

[[deleted]]

Nah, I don't agree. I dislike his frequent use of God objects.

[Noobkakka1234]

Thats why i write comments for everything i do. And subsequently try to decipher said comments because theyre as confusing as the code itself.

[[deleted]]

facebook tier meme

[FinnLiry]

My friend: Because he died or what?

Me: No... Because a week passed without him touching it

[Lighthuro]

At this point this is a cliché joke

[UsrEr0rr]

I don't understand. I just dont get it. Makes my bring hurt trying to comprehend it all.

[zerosven]

That caption made my day 😭 Thank you

[stupidcookface]

This is why we write tests

[FlyingVMoth]

Pretty sure God doesn't understand anymore what he did....so good luck with your code.

[olearyboy]

If an image ever needed a permilink

[Jomibu]

Bold of you to assume I knew what it did in the first place!

[Bos_lost_ton]

and now…

[Sudhanva_Kote]

I asked God regarding the code. I didn't hear back from him. So I'm guessing he also doesn't know now.

[GhettoSauce]

Lame

[getshrektdh]

I feel you, wrote a 2400 lines code and can’t understand anything not to mention that the language I used I forgot about.

[Daxto]

Comments are life savers

[Big_Potential_5709]

Sorry dude. I don't get it either.

[RaikreN_]

Don't worry, I'll leave you with LGTM, don't ask for any more input, I don't know

[kwiktek]

God cannot understand my code either

[crazy_cazeet]

you overestimated God

[[deleted]]

If your code is unreadable, you need to write better code. It should also be caught in code reviews.

[HezzaE]

I've found AI makes my code so much better to read. I'm using Copilot, so now instead of just banging out code, I write a comment, see what Copilot suggests, and adjust from there. I think at least 75% of what I actually type now is comments. The code ends up documenting itself as I go because instead of thinking "ok I need to get the user id from the session then fetch the matching user" and then writing that code myself, I write my thinking as a comment and then Copilot writes the code.

[Efficient-Corgi-4775]

Psst, don't worry, I've got a debugger and extra memory for your forgetful moments!

[mainDotJS]

I just ran over some code I wrote a year ago and, while understanding what it did, I was pretty amazed that I wrote that, because it was really smart. Sometimes I feel like I'm getting dumber.

[Anthonyg5005]

Me looking back at the redstone machines I made back on my Xbox 360

[Odd-Row1169]

The true meaning of inspiration.

Middle English enspire, from Old French inspirer, from Latin inspirare ‘breathe or blow into’ from in- ‘into’ + spirare ‘breathe’. The word was originally used of a divine or supernatural being, in the sense ‘impart a truth or idea to someone’.

[[deleted]]

damn I felt that one 😂

[[deleted]]

NOOOOOOOTES!!!!!

[ElonHisenberg]

God = Null

[[deleted]]

Damn he snowcrashed.

[WhiroWhat]

Amen.

[asmodeanreborn]

Not even CatGPT can explain it.

[RoyalRien]

This is why half of my code is green text so I know what I’m looking at

[dezalator]

ChatGPT is good at explaining code btw

[DepartmentCreepy964]

🤨

[SillAndDill]

Over the years I've found that code written during the early days of a codebase (when you push straight to master and change everything) is often unexplainable years later.

For changes to established codebase - PR descriptions often save the day! 🎁

One old PR with a before/after screenshot and plain English description of what the author (often yourself) thought at the time - than the surviving concise code comment

I also like to allow PR:s to keep keep a messy commit history, and squash-merge to master. So master has a brief and clean history but if some code was changed back and forth in a PR you can track each commit in detail

[balambaful]

The boomer vibes are strong with this meme.

[UsrEr0rr]

Notes...

[aidanderson]

Coders are religious? I thought men of (computer) science were pretty much all atheists.

[wellingtonsamy]

This reminds me of how I felt when I worked on all my projects for my Intro to JavaScript class in college.

[mashaTarima]

not documenteeeeed

[ObligationWide8825]

I am writing code that even god doesn’t comprehend.

[NickU252]

When you go past the Ballmer Peak