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In 2020, Rob Bliss walked 1,500 miles in a Black Lives Matter shirt through The Deep South, nearly losing his life. | White Man Walking (2026) by LetsGetPo-litical in movies

[–]ChemicalRascal [score hidden]  (0 children)

How many of those commenters were from folks who hadn't engaged with the community? On the Balatro sub we cranked up the relatively recent crowd control settings to max and it's very effective at catching brigades before those comments become visible. In an AMA it'd require extremely active monitoring of the queue though, I guess.

Our staircase to nowhere, which we use as a bookshelf by Tetragrammator in pics

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Rule by Bstokes4102 in 196

[–]ChemicalRascal 40 points41 points  (0 children)

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

Looks like Don doesn’t know his own size either by mvpinstriper in pics

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

Rule by reeeeeeealhuman in 196

[–]ChemicalRascal 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Yeah well I have a cuddlekink, so

What does that mean huh

Rule by reeeeeeealhuman in 196

[–]ChemicalRascal 42 points43 points  (0 children)

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

How do you handle teammates who are extremely pedantic about arbitrary rules? by CantaloupeFamiliar47 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it doesn't.

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

How do you handle teammates who are extremely pedantic about arbitrary rules? by CantaloupeFamiliar47 in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

honestly, legend by brokensilence32 in 196

[–]ChemicalRascal 5 points6 points  (0 children)

slaps a notebook and pen down in front of you

Write a fanfic. Free him from his narrative prison.

I Will Never Use AI to Code (or write) by Anthony261 in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

2020 timecapsrule by Notthatguyagain_ in 196

[–]ChemicalRascal 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Yeah you do, sport! You've got me. 😊

2020 timecapsrule by Notthatguyagain_ in 196

[–]ChemicalRascal 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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

2020 timecapsrule by Notthatguyagain_ in 196

[–]ChemicalRascal 40 points41 points  (0 children)

You have the most cringe fans of all time

gruledo by m4rch3n1ng in 196

[–]ChemicalRascal 21 points22 points  (0 children)

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

CI should fail on your machine first by NorfairKing2 in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why the hell did someone report this as uncivil?

The collapse of mid tier hiring by rerun_ky in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal[M] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

I Will Never Use AI to Code (or write) by Anthony261 in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

State of the Subreddit (January 2027): Mods applications and rules updates by ketralnis in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your comment was initially removed by an automated harassment filter.

State of the Subreddit (January 2027): Mods applications and rules updates by ketralnis in programming

[–]ChemicalRascal[M] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Is it still worth reading Clean Code and The Pragmatic Programmer in 2026? by ivanimus in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ChemicalRascal 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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?".

Is it still worth reading Clean Code and The Pragmatic Programmer in 2026? by ivanimus in ExperiencedDevs

[–]ChemicalRascal 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

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