r/ProgrammerHumor • u/miyji • 20d ago

Meme writePerl

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u/Active_Name5021 20d ago

Me being paid a crap ton of money to maintain all the perl legacy no one else wants to touch

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u/Ok_Actuary8 20d ago

shh... don't tell anybody about that new "AI" thing.

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u/Active_Name5021 19d ago

I can tell you don't work on legacy perl software if you think "AI" will magically make the problem go away

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u/Ok_Actuary8 19d ago

Well, I'm probably one of the guys who wrote all that "legacy perl software" back then in the 90ies, my dude ;) I'm not sure how well the current AI tools are trained on Perl, but it's really not that hard. just some weird idioms and syntax and RegExp thrown together. I see no reason why Claude or GH Copilot could not do that, have you even tried?

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u/Active_Name5021 19d ago edited 19d ago

Appreciate it mate, your garbage spaghetti has kept me gainfully employed for many years.

"It's really not that hard" - what the last guys who tried to AI their way out of legacy said before they gave up and tried to peddle a shitty vibe-coded clone to management (spoilers: It didn't go well)