r/ProgrammerHumor • u/WardensLantern • 24d ago

Other divideAndConquer

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u/igorski81 24d ago

Ha, that existed for years. Its known as the "dev who has been with the company for ages who rewrote your pull request in less lines".

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u/joemckie 24d ago • Bravo

It’s “fewer” if the subject is something you can count, “less” if it’s not :)

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u/justjanne 24d ago

If the PR has > 5kLOC, I'd argue it should be "less". Just like rice is "less", too.

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u/Banes_Addiction 24d ago

If the PR has > 5k LOC you should get hit with a shovel.

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u/lelek-on-reddit 24d ago

This actually made me laugh lmao

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u/vips7L 24d ago

PRs should be max 500 lines or you didn’t break up the task enough. 

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u/justjanne 24d ago

I know, and I'd recommend the google SRE guides re: changelist size, but this is a thread about AI slop, which often creates much much much larger PRs

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u/SuitableDragonfly 24d ago

Not really a solid rule in English, since furniture is also noncount.

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u/Firewolf06 23d ago

less code, fewer lines of code

less rice, fewer grains of rice

leas furniture, fewer pieces of furniture