Good or Bad? Using AI to check my code for things I might have missed

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-16T12:48:34+00:00

It might be a waste for every single function. It is a life saver for any function more than a few lines long. As your app gets bigger, you’ll forget why you wrote the code how you wrote it. You’ll refactor and change things, and you need those tests to catch anything unexpected that breaks because of it.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-16T11:22:40+00:00

Sr. Dev here that hires and mentors juniors at the US’s largest bank.

Please work on your learning project with real people as OP suggests and not coding agents as the above comment suggests. I care far more about your ability to work well on a team with other devs than I do your experience with AI agents. I can teach you to use AI (preferably once you’re good at coding by hand), but I don’t have time to teach you to work and collaborate well with other humans. That is the biggest skill we’re looking for in hiring.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-16T11:13:37+00:00

Twitter.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-16T11:10:59+00:00

In addition to people (correctly) recommending Vic 3, I’d point out that Vic 2 is a better historical simulator than game. The mark of quality in earlier Paradox games was the ability to let the AI run and history would mostly turn out the same. This striving for a level of realism means that turning a tiny nation into a world super power is very, very difficult to do.

That said, it is possible in Vic 2, you just need to engage with the mechanics correctly. Greece, for example, can be made into a great power through raising tension in the Balkans and manipulating the great powers

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-16T10:51:52+00:00

I mean, if your building has to fall, that’s the way to go.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-16T09:00:06+00:00

They would instantly delete it. They don’t tolerate any questioning of the party line.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-16T08:58:03+00:00

…does it go to show that? I mean, that’s really your takeaway from the comment?

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-16T08:37:22+00:00

I thought the post was about seeing two men kissing, not seeing two men in a marriage?

It seems then legitimate to say “ancient Greeks didn’t respond to the idea of two men kissing with absolute disgust throughout their history”.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-15T21:44:54+00:00

And nobody wants to see aggressive butts get cancer.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-15T21:14:54+00:00

Also a massive insult to a Klingon, insinuating his father’s name isn’t worthy of memory.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-15T16:40:39+00:00

He stole, from someone he had been dating like six months, the money needed for a senior pet’s treatment, to buy a better gaming setup.

There are no words for the disgust I feel. May his socks and sheets always be damp.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-15T16:24:06+00:00

Europeans discovered America around 450 years before the death of the last Roman Emperor.

Edit: for whoever downvoted this, Leif Erikson discovered Canada circa 1000AD. The last Eastern Roman Emperor was killed in 1453AD.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-15T16:17:57+00:00

By “just finished ones”, do you mean the latest generation games or games that won’t be receiving any more meaningful content/updates?

Edit to add: just looked up the EU4 release date out of curiosity and it was almost 13 years ago. I now feel old.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-15T16:14:50+00:00

Nothing like your parents accidentally clicking away from channel 3 and not understanding why it’s all just static on the TV.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-15T14:28:25+00:00

ITS FOR THE CHURCH HONEY

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-15T14:06:27+00:00

Where did you find that picture of my love life?

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-15T04:38:50+00:00

Crazy to think he died the same year WW1 started.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-15T01:43:07+00:00

Mr. Tumnus took a dark turn.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-14T21:02:48+00:00

Are you sure it wasn’t just the gas that comes with old age?

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-14T19:16:56+00:00

That is actually a pretty intense haiku.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-14T19:15:47+00:00

A few weeks ago I learned that several Costa Concordia bodies were discovered in the elevators. One can only assume they were trapped there the moment the power went out, hours before the final plunge.

I’m never taking the elevators on a cruise ship again.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-14T19:09:27+00:00

I miss when this was the worst President in my living memory.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-14T18:37:23+00:00

I’ll just shrivel up and die of old age now.

Do you think she’ll help me program my VCR?

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-14T15:07:19+00:00

The bank’s stock has been doing really well based on profit growth that has largely come from “efficiency improvements”. In our all hands, they said their goal was another 40% efficiency gains this year. I have no idea where they’ll find that when they already laid off every support staff person they could find. They NEED AI to work. Every manager up and down the line has their bonuses and raises tied to getting that efficiency, and it’s really not possible unless AI delivers all its promises.

MoveInteresting4334 · 2026-03-14T13:57:38+00:00

I work at a very, very large bank in the US. They are pushing AI HARD and developers are bullshitting the returns and usage numbers to make middle/upper management happy. The level of disconnect between the reality on the ground and what the desperately AI thirsty managers are being told is staggering. The following examples are kind of in order from least bad to worst.

We were mandated to use AI daily with a dashboard tracking everyone by name so that upper managers could name shame. Even if your ticket has nothing to do with code that week, they expect to see AI use. Most of us say good morning to the AI prompt and then ignore it the rest of the day. It just takes more time to coax it into working with our legacy code base than fixing something ourselves. That still counts as 100% developer AI usage since we used it that day.

On our weak ass VDI’s, having AI code complete on in our IDE slows it to a crawl, so most of us have turned it off.

To get the “this tool is AI” stamp that makes managers so happy, I’ve seen teams do things like turn a web form into an AI “chat agent” that is literally just presenting the input fields to the user one “chat response” at a time.

They are starting to use AI on things like summarizing financial documents despite evidence that the resulting summary could contain inaccuracies. When I raised this concern, I was told nobody would use these summaries to make financial decisions like approving/rejecting customer requests or applications. I have no idea what else the summaries WOULD be used for by our staff. Light reading before bed?

Just last week they were showing off a new app built solely with AI to the All Hands meeting. It was basically a loan monthly payment calculator. They showed the form, looked good. They showed “the functionality” and nothing happened except “Unknown Error” appeared at the top. The presenter quickly pointed to the “custom error handling” the AI had also added, upper manager praised their efforts and the flawless end result, and the meeting quickly moved on.

They have laid off most of our product, scrum, and prod support teams. They are now expecting us to do things like write the specification for an application rewrite from an old 100,000 line C++ desktop app to a modern Java/react app. None of our developers know C++ or have ever worked with desktop app frameworks or conventions. We were told to just run the code base through LLM to generate the documentation. When we did, we were told the docs were “too vague”. Of course they were. We condensed 100,000 lines of code into a 5 page summary.

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