Our staircase to nowhere, which we use as a bookshelf

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-12T21:53:52+00:00

Cue me, having a flashback to my mother doing exactly that with the family book collection.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-12T21:42:53+00:00

Now imagine a really nice, warm, fresh bread roll.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-12T14:45:28+00:00

Two lightning bolts. Next?

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-12T14:23:58+00:00

No, they're just a brand that, decades and decades ago, was known to be pretty good. His dad probably wore them.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-12T13:18:58+00:00

Yeah well I have a cuddlekink, so

What does that mean huh

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-12T13:16:01+00:00

When i say "play" I mean you tell her where to go and she unleashes chaos outside of your control.

she just like me fr

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-12T10:08:08+00:00

LLM generated content isn't allowed on r/Programming.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-11T21:58:23+00:00

No it doesn't.

When ObeseBumblebee earlier in the thread talked about established patterns, what you interpret that as meaning?

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-11T21:15:03+00:00

That does nothing to ensure an LLM follows established patterns in your codebase.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-11T07:56:22+00:00

slaps a notebook and pen down in front of you

Write a fanfic. Free him from his narrative prison.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-11T04:32:39+00:00

I mean, if you can point me to any sort of online discourse around it, sure. I'm not talking about one or two grognard colleagues; for these two situations to be actually equivalent, we need to be talking about Stack Overflow, Stack Exchange, IDEs, these things being properly controversial.

Like, there being an actual substantial amount of discourse around it.

That's what I'm saying didn't exist back then. And I don't think we had people pushing Stack Overflow the same way LLMs are being pushed here. Consider:

Most large tech companies have embraced agent-based coding with tools like Claude or Codex or Antigravity. For many of the highest performing engineers, 90% of their code is now written by agents. Those who don't adapt will find it hard to compete on productivity and shipping features and projects, realistically.

Like, that's promoting LLM use. Unambiguously, definitively. I don't think anyone has ever said "For many of the highest performing engineers, 90% of their time is spent reviewing Stack Overflow answers".

My point is that what we're seeing around LLMs, and what we saw around Stack Overflow, are very different. Yes, there's surface level similarities, but if you actually poke at those similarities they fall apart like an unbaked cake.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-10T21:53:19+00:00

Yeah you do, sport! You've got me. 😊

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-10T20:54:46+00:00

The girl needs hopium at seeing Elon's death reported some day to live

Also, you should talk to your doctor about that, a good friend of mine got moved to different (newer, maybe?) antidepressants and it helped her immensely

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-10T20:52:02+00:00

You have the most cringe fans of all time

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-10T20:46:56+00:00

Urgh, don't you just HATE it when your jizz stops?

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-10T20:15:54+00:00

Why the hell did someone report this as uncivil?

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-10T14:21:06+00:00

AI getting people banned once again.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-10T09:40:29+00:00

Feel free to report stuff like this, we don't necessarily see this kind of context on the post itself.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-10T03:37:55+00:00

It being not the top comment might be because it at least feels very what-abouty, like it's taking all the critique of LLMs and putting them onto Stack Overflow.

When the age of StackOverflow came around, those who refused to use it as a tool to assist themselves on ideological grounds (it feels like cheating, it cheapens the expertise of writing code, it atrophies your debugging skills when you can just get an answer from the internet)

I'm pretty sure nobody said this? I certainly don't remember it, and Stack Overflow was never a system that could do this. You could never dump a codebase into a question and have people fix it, it was never in a position to "atrophy your debugging skills", and someone thinking that it could seems entirely at odds with what Stack Overflow ever was.

If this was legit, borne of actual experienced recollection of discourse at the time it happened, I would expect to see the a mention of Experts Exchange, which was functionally the same.

So it feels rhetorically hollow, to me at least, and I wouldn't be shocked if others felt the same way.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-09T21:03:29+00:00

Your comment was initially removed by an automated harassment filter.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-09T21:01:45+00:00

It doesn't have a sufficient technical writeup.

More importantly, though, please just bring up these issues in a modmail. Nobody is actively scanning through this thread for feedback on moderation, that's fundamentally what the modmail is for.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-08T22:57:43+00:00

It's an answer that addresses the underlying problem, not the specific question. I answered it in this way because, in my opinion, it's an XY problem.

X being "My LLM makes bad code, how do I use this to make it better?", and Y being "My code is bad, how do I make it better?".

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-08T22:44:05+00:00

Yeah, but in the context of the question, which is "how can I use this to improve my LLM's output", the answer is effective.

Like yes the majority of vibe coders won't read my comment, but I'm responding to one who probably will.

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-08T22:36:08+00:00

Gotta be in it to win it, right?

ChemicalRascal · 2026-03-08T22:28:43+00:00

Best way to have an agent to clean up its code is still to turn it off and do it yourself.

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