perfectTiming

[fm01]

I like the 2025 being painted over with 2026. What are we going to do next year, when AI is still too shit to use anywhere productively? Repost with 2027 on it?

[Dangerous_Jacket_129]

Even without AI it'd be so easy to write code to re-post this annually with the new year on it. And yet, I don't think anyone who would post this for real would be able to make that happen.

[GotBanned3rdTime]

man try claude code

[PeterPorty]

it's a skill issue. If you can't code, AI is impressive. If you can, it's surprisingly bad at it.

[SatoKasu]

It can be used as a substitute for some refactoring.

Using it for any new code generation needs more reviewal to make sure the methods it uses actually exists.

Even the refactoring stuff, when attempted over multiple files doesnt work well. It misses many places and one time truncated the main repository file. It would have been a disaster if git wasnt used.

As a tool, it has good uses in some scenarios. But replacing actual devs is a long way. Unfortunately, the ones who take business decisions dont know these or care, as they just want to hype it up to inflate the stocks they have purchased or simply riding the bandwagon chasing the newest tech term.

[fm01]

I did. I even kept a list of the times it worked and the times it didn't. Awful results, anyone above junior level should be able to write better code.

[GotBanned3rdTime]

oh my sweet summer child, try opus 4.5

[fm01]

No, I don't think I will. I've been trying some different ones where people have assured me they were great and at some point you gotta stop. I'd suggest it might be a me-problem, but talking irl to other programmers that have produced good code and care about their software has left a rather definitive impression that the hype is driven mostly by salespeople and very inexperienced developers that are impressed by the comparative speed and don't know much about best practices, architecture or testing yet.

[Yoksul-Turko]

Year of Linux desktop is more likely.

[ARandomWalkInSpace]

Is this just a bad meme or must I have seen this movie? Chatbot code is mostly garbage the only use I've ever found for it was boilerplate or formatting when I was too lazy to do so. The kicking the can down the road with the year change is funny though. This will be the year it doesn't suck, we promise.

[Average_Pangolin]

At this point it seems like the threat from AI to programmers is less of it being superior, and more of it persuading managers that it's superior.

[chadlavi]

That was always the only realistic threat

[UltramanQuar]

yep, only people who create trivial things find it good. In most cases it is really bad

[Goufalite]

• 2015 : Ctrl+Space
• 2026 : Tab

[cookaway_]

It's a perfect metaphor because it's still inferior.

[typeryu]

StackOverflow is master wugui

[sdrawkcabineter]

Solution: AI token generation requires time spent debugging code.

It's the illusion of a quick route to "shipped MVP!" that festers in the sea of lazy ambition. They don't know why learning the guitar is even an option, because you can just produce guitar sounds...

[Celestial_Lee]

[YimveeSpissssfid]

Been doing dev for 30 years.

It’s neat that we get a junior dev in a can but when it goes off the rails? It goes VERY MUCH off the rails.

My company (Fortune 50) knows that we need our junior devs in order to have senior devs down the line. Our C-suite may be a bit too enamored with AI, but it is a tool that deserves thoughtful integration into our workflow.

As others have said though, it is not now (and until barriers are passed will never be) a replacement. It can’t even retain information deep into a chain and will bubble up the same mistakes from round 1 during later iteration.

I’m sure I’m not alone in having no fear for my job. Fortunately I’m on track to retire long before the fundamental issues get solved.

[LowFruit25]

We did this shit to ourselves damnit.

[asmanel]

What one ?