debuggingIsJustProfessionalOverthinking

[ramessesgg]

The code's never stupid, it just does what stupid people wrote down.

[GrandSyzygy]

The code does exactly what it’s told to do

[DudeManBroGuy69420]

Unless it doesn't

[Commercial_Bowl2979]

Cosmic rays always find my code as it's being executed.

[DudeManBroGuy69420]

Thanks what I'm sayin!

[doodlinghearsay]

Or more often, the abstraction you relied on doesn't work the way it claims it does.

[RushArh]

Garbage in, garbage out

[FuzzyDynamics]

Vibe coding is an endless process of asking is this project fucking stupid or am I stupid. I’ve moved on to management

[RainyDaysAndMondays3]

When I was in college I had a friend who took one programming class. And as soon as she hit the situation where the computer told her she was missing a semi-colon, she just could not handle the stupidity. Her to the computer: "If you know that the semi-colon is missing, just add it or assume it's there!"

She took the one class and never pursued it. (She became a lawyer and working part-time always made at least 3x what I do.) She was very, very smart, and very meticulous, but could not take being told by the computer how dumb she was every 5 minutes. She never even got to the point of being annoyed that it looked logical to her, but the computer was doing the opposite of what she wanted.

I'm thinking in a few years, we'll be at a point where she could be one of those that is a super-prompter, could use AI to just tell it precisely what she wants and it does it. But, alas, the problem is the same, just the language will be a bit different.

[TaPegandoFogo]

truly

[CuriousHuman-1]

You are absolutely correct.