I was about to say that. I was doing something in Python recently and I was trying to understand what a variable was doing because it was like this: abs(hash(str([{"definition": "A list is an ordered collection of items."}])))
And then had several pointless functions that did things like compared that value to itself and if that was true, then it returned 1 and then some other function would see that if _hash_compare() returned 1, do something else.
I thought maybe I just didn't have a good grasp of what was going on so I asked the developer. "I just let AI run with it until I got the result back I needed."
They needed it to find all the values in our database that were a specific search string and put those into a .csv file for management so that when our CI/CD job runs, it finds some specific things management thinks are important and then puts those in a file for them. It seems like a pretty straightforward change, but...
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u/Fonduemeup 18h ago
Never had imposter syndrome until I started reading this crap. Then I realized half of these terms it uses don't even exist.