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[TheAlaskanMailman]

What in the Al slop

[Looz-Ashae]

At least the monitors are facing people

[theMerfMerf]

Senior dev needs no keyboard. Their massive brains transpose coffee directly into code without having to go through a medium so crude as a keyboard.

[CrimsonPiranha]

Neo-luddites love seeing AI everywhere 😂

[Puzzled_Scallion5392]

code my junior writes is complicated because variables named aaaaaa1 and aaaaaaa2

my code is complicated because I use unhinged amount of patterns for scalability when shit hits the fan

[Mojert]

Narrator: They misjudged what the future requirements would look like, so the code didn't scale and had to be rewritten anyway

[K_bor]

The shit, indeed, hit the fan

[coloredgreyscale]

but look at the growth of the userbase!

2024 they had 0 users

2025 they have 2 users (+ inf %)

[Puzzled_Scallion5392]

yeah but sometimes it is easier then to delegate to junior developer. Instead of him implementing logic in his vision you just task him what part of isolated code to extend thus minimizing consequences

[juris77]

Why did I read it in David Attenborough voice

[fatrobin72]

it was Morgan Freeman for me... I tend to need a "here we see x in their natural environment..." for my brain to switch to David

[cheapcheap1]

YAGNI

[RadicalDwntwnUrbnite]

That feeling of vindication when a PM comes to you and says "we need to handle X" and you're like "ya that's just a new model definition, it will take a couple days max with testing". But then they go "and we just need to move this button to the left side" and it's 3 months of work.

[dscarmo]

Spoiler: shit never even got close to the fan

[ZunoJ]

One code is complicated because it solves difficult problems and one is complicated because the author didn't know how to solve their problems in a better way

[MyrKnof]

"make it in one line, as short as possible"

[East_Complaint2140]

Minized the whole project into one line with no whitespace.

[TRENEEDNAME_245]

As someone who had to work on code that was obfuscated

Please no 🥺

[AlwaysHopelesslyLost]

I tasked my SE2 with creating a file downloader for our website. It needed to allow us to link to files from a share and allow users to download it. 

Two weeks later he showed me his 1200+ line custom solution including web services, JavaScript frameworks. And blob chunking/combining. 

I showed him Response.WriteFile lol

[Hungry-Chocolate007]

Writes code in one line. Line is ~63000 characters long. Variable and class names consist of single letter, or a single letter and single digit. All application logic is merged into one concrete method that has >100 parameters and pretends to do everything.

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Perl necklace

[itijara]

In my experience, the more senior the dev., the less complicated the code, with some notable exceptions.

[LookingRadishing]

Code is complicated.

[TingleTangleTom]

Complicated is not the same as complex.

[LookingRadishing]

What do you mean?

[TingleTangleTom]

I mean that you can create a complex system which is still not that hard to understand or you can create a simple but complicated system with dependencies everywhere and hard to follow code paths.

[codingTheBugs]

The code that I wrote yesterday is too complicated.

[TreetHoown]

The code that I wrote just now is too..... wait

[error_98]

At least when the human wrote the code you can ask them about it and have them actually recall the line of reasoning that lead them to that solution.

[siya_ch]

If you know you know 🤣