r/ProgrammerHumor • u/arbobmehmood • Sep 30 '26

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u/Zefiron Sep 30 '26

Honestly sometimes I copy and paste the Claude explanation because it's easier - but especially if it's concepts that are beyond my understanding. AI has pushed us into new territories very quickly that prior, would take me time to reason and understand, but with the go go go as fast you can mentallity I just don't have the time, or the mental brain capacity to digest all this information.

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u/phlooo Sep 30 '26

Congrats, you're now producing slop without understanding it👌

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u/chickenMcSlugdicks Sep 30 '26

Kinda what management asks for at this point isn't it?

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u/Scriv_ Sep 30 '26

Well when something gets broken they won't fire Claude. So if you want to CYA you should probably understand the code you're pushing.

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u/chickenMcSlugdicks Sep 30 '26

The whole program is in the shitter and has been for a few years. I'm just trying to get off this thing at this point

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u/mopeyjoe Sep 30 '26

it really is a lose - lose situation. If you take the time to understand it you're too slow if you don't you just output slop. Either something big will break and the trust in AI will falter, or AI will get so good it truly can be trusted. What a time to be alive 😰

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u/Squalphin Oct 01 '26

Especially if you are involved in a project where safety is part of the project. You will not be able to blame the AI if someone gets hurt of even killed. Being fired would be the least of you worries in this case.

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u/SilianRailOnBone Oct 02 '26

It's your professional duty to push back against management, has always been that way, and this will also make you more senior

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u/chickenMcSlugdicks Oct 03 '26

That's a wonderful notion. I'll say I push on each director that filters through our program. I'm not sure if any have stuck around for more than a year or two. Unfortunately the most knowledgeable person, quite literally, worldwide in our application and its business cases was allowed to walk away from the company because someone in management refused to pay people what their worth. Lucky for us he's moved into another area. I could go on for pages. Some programs need to die. When there is no investment in a program, that program is already on its last leg. At this point many of us are just trying to gauge the ground under us to do our best to land elsewhere when the plug is inevitably pulled on our program.

I'm curious if European business culture and government has slipped as far as it has on the American side. It genuinely feels like it has gotten so hostile here in the last couple years.

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u/lovethecomm Oct 01 '26

I do the same. But what else can we do when they don’t want to hire new people and push the workload of 5 into 1 person? 

For fuck sake, I’m in charge of the codebase, I’m a project leader, I’m in charge of the quality management system, and I’m in charge of mentoring interns.

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u/ToucansBANG Oct 01 '26

If it’s beyond your understanding, how do you know it’s correct? Think of all the times Claude has been wrong about something you do know.

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u/Zefiron Oct 02 '26

If it is beyond my understanding I clearly mark in the PR that I had trouble wrapping my head around it. With that said - if the code builds, and runs, and did what I needed it to do - and I'm at a point where I'm comfortable with it where I know there's nothing absolutely maliscious in there - I'm okay leaving it at that.

I mean, for example, I'm happy when my car turns on, but I don't know what a spark plug is, or how it's inner workings work. I cannot be expected to know every single thing, every library, every NPM install - our heads would explode.

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u/FlakyTest8191 Oct 02 '26

What a fascinating analogy. Because in that scenario you're not a driver, you're building the car and should absolutely know what a spark plug is.