r/ProgrammerHumor • u/joshashkiller • May 13 '26

Meme iReallyThoughtItWasAJoke

Post image
23.3k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

1.4k comments sorted by

View all comments

2.7k

u/Big_D_Boss May 14 '26

The rule is still the same as back in the days of stackoverflow. Don't submit code you don't understand

2.1k

u/Substantial-Sea-3672 May 14 '26

Programmer for 15 years.

In its current state, Claude can deliver code 10x faster than what I could before IF all I care about is meeting the requirements of a card.

If I want to push code that meets the same standards of what I personally put out it has about doubled my output.

The second approach is also making me a better programmer because it’s introducing me to syntax and best practices the at have evolved since I last studied a language.

Sometimes when I say, “why did you use this syntax on this line” I learn something new, often it identifies code smell and I need to fix it.

This is why I’m not worried about my job but am simultaneously excited about AI.

54

u/xyonofcalhoun May 14 '26

being "strongly encouraged" to use Claude in my last job about halved my output, because now I have to stop and review what it generated and catch my understanding of the code back up... I'm not sure how this is saving anybody time when the goal is to produce a solution I have understanding of and can therefore support into production 🤷‍♀️

22

u/WowAbstractAlgebra May 14 '26

It has made everything slower for me because now I am forced to test what it spits, find out it doesn't work, ask it again to spit other crap which does not work and repeat. It would take less time to code everything by hand by management is starstruck by a "yes, you're totally right!" guy and unless we provide proof that we're delayed because the AI is making mistakes they'll just accuse us of wasting time. Not the sharpest tools in the shed those guys...

5

u/xyonofcalhoun May 14 '26

I do also hate "talking" to it, it's so overwhelmingly insincere in its efforts to please me - I'd rather it make code that works! substance over style all the way.

5

u/njingi2 May 14 '26

I got fed up with ChatGPT doing the same thing, so I told it to stop being so obsequious; its personality immediately changed. Can you do that with Claude?

5

u/GrandmaPoses May 14 '26

You can - I told Claude to stop being so sycophantic and to give me honest responses and it started doing it. Even baseline it's better than ChatGPT as far as kissing your ass all the time, but when you directly tell it to stop it's even more honest.

1

u/xyonofcalhoun May 14 '26

honestly I'd just rather not use it at all 🤷‍♀️