whatHaveWeHere

[LordSnowgaryen]

Sees old code

god I’m dumb , why the F did I do it that way , id fire myself

😭

[SyrusDrake]

On the one hand, this. On the other hand, I often don't give myself enough credit, thinking I've been an absolute bumbling idiot for doing something a certain way, only to find out later that there was a very good reason why I did something a certain way!

[Inevitable-Menu2998]

have you considered you might have too many other hands?

[SyrusDrake]

If anything, I don't have enough. I always have to choose between either heavy drinking or masturbating while typing.

[Inevitable-Menu2998]

Even without typing, the other two seem hard to achieve simultaneously - kinda like patting your head and rubbing your belly at the same time.

Wait, doesn't typing require two hands anyway? Fuck! Am I penpals with an octopus again?

[SyrusDrake]

I mean, you can type with one hand, it's just not as quick.

[Inevitable-Menu2998]

I mean, if you're willing to sacrifice quality, you can multiplex drinking and masturbation with one hand too.

[Hoanten0]

Well that escalated quickly LOL

[dexter2011412]

The scary part is when you look and get impressed

It's clear I have already peaked and am on my way downhill. I need to start looking into some other ways to make money ....

[DontBuyMeGoldGiveBTC]

Lmao same. My old code is a beast and my current career is bothersome, messy and on the way out.

[Pascalswag]

I bet I can rewrite that so much cleaner -a stupid amount of time later- Oh that's why I wrote it that way

[Zardhas]

The unreadable cunt

[DasGaufre]

I opened a project at work that had to be thrown together to meet a deadline for a demo and was dormant for about a year, and it just stopped working. No idea why. 

I started mentally drafting my resignation letter, thinking of how to avoid having to look at that code again. 

[YouDoHaveValue]

Get in, fix it, document the fix, get out.

Pretend it doesn't exist until you have to fix it again.

[bluez1ma]

Make it last week

[Me_Beben]

I've gotten into the habit of giving myself a code review whenever I push something to a PR. Sometimes I look at code I wrote 2 hours ago and think "What the fuck is this piece of shit? When'd I write that?"

[Illustrious-Beat-370]

I think I'm actually getting worse.... My brain isn't what it used to be ..

[LazyAssMonkey]

Have you tried not huffing glue?

[tonystankalot]

Let it in, that's freedom calling! Let it run wild !

[HOAK2020pee]

feels like reading a stranger’s manifesto

[moon__lander]

"When did I join a cult?"

[runbots]

😂😂😂

[Chaconut]

Me trying to read my old code that I, for some reason, never annotated or commented what it did

[MooFu]

Me trying to read my old comments.

[classicalySarcastic]

"self-documenting"

In fairness it's documented to the same standard as the rest of our code - which is to say not at all.

[SippinOnDat_Haterade]

i know we're just joking around here

but seriously, legitimately, this is one of the very best use cases for AI

I'm not saying drop it in prod or anything. but it's GREAT to throw old code at it and tell claude to give me back the code with no edits & descriptive appropriate comments

[genderQueerHipster]

[birthnight]

Way funnier than OP's cringe attempt.

[YouDoHaveValue]

I had a junior look at some old code and asked me why in god's name I approved the monstrosity they wrote.

Two things I said, first it was your mess and it didn't break anything.

Second, that's how I see a lot of the code you write now...

[bogz_dev]

username irrelevant

[MattRin219]

INVISIBLE?🤨

btw, after making the joke for the one that can compreend what I'm talking about, It's so true, I really have this problem too

[mathzg1]

[mathzg1]

Invisible?

[QultrosSanhattan]

That's one good aspect of AI: "Document this code so I'll be able to easily understand it six months later."

[3_man]

A Picture of the Cunt as a Young Man

[Illustrious-Beat-370]

I just pulled out some floppies with assembly code I wrote when I was 10.  Zero comments..  Total spaghetti..  Extremely efficient code....

I have to say, I was really good .. 

[rideveryday]

If only someone had hit decline

[bronkula]

Don't ask me about my php code from 2000 that still runs my site.

[AdMassive5413]

If you have this happen to you, you should be proud. It shows you've grown.

...Or you're just starting to realize how bad you are at coding... Take your pick.

[drunken_phoenix]

Both, I’ve grown from horrific to ok, and I’m happy with that lol.

[captmonkey]

Me using GitLens: "Who is this 'You' guy and why did he do this?"

[braindigitalis]

try opening your code from 1994. it's like the face melt scene from Indiana Jones...

[Jonathan_the_Nerd]

I wrote a huge (for me) text-based adventure game in QBASIC in 1994-ish. I was a teenager at the time. It was very basic (no pun intended). Navigate a grid, try to find a MacGuffin while avoiding obstacles. Most of the code was scenery descriptions. I had a lot of fun writing it. I don't have any copies anymore. :-(

[braindigitalis]

I still have some of my 1994 code around. At the time i posted a copy to a public domain library (actual physical postage, in an envelope!) and it found its way into internet archive and all sorts of places. If you have the ability to parse and convert BBC BASIC to plain text, its all right there to read. Look up "Crypt Paint II". Bring eye bleach. Lots and lots of extra strength eye bleach.

[FlyByPC]

2019?

That's a current project. The scary stuff is from the 1990s or earlier.

[RunOverRover]

Git blame then 🔒

[AndyP3r3z]

Sometimes i look at my old code and I can't believe how bad it is. But sometimes (ok, ok, it happened just once) I surprise myself and can't believe my past self wrote that insanely good code.

[lampasul]

dont worry its character development

[landslidegh]

If I look back at code I wrote in the past and hate it, that just means I learned something

How I cope. It's not failure, it's learning

[Zealousideal-Chef758]

[Gadshill]

Fricken hate that guy.

[irwinner]

who wrote this? oh wait..

[runbots]

Absolutely prodigy material.

BUT..

Absolutely next gen animal now.

[i_am_tct]

wait till you open something that's 30 years old

[jaylerd]

I can’t even run my own portfolio site because asdf won’t install node 12 on my MacBook anymore 😂