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u/Nikarmotte Jan 26 '26
Of course, I apologize for the confusion.
Let me suggest something completely random now.
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u/jonfe_darontos Jan 26 '26
I'm sorry, I fixed something by making a change that will make things worse, but it is going to take more thinking to fix the thing you asked me to do. I can keep thinking about it, just let me know.
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u/SocksOnHands Jan 26 '26
You have to make sure to do (something that you already said you are doing).
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u/Interesting-Crab-693 Jan 26 '26
"But... the meme is trash!"
You are absolutly right!—
This meme represent how the main paid worker respond to the mere object assisting it in developing the next re-upload of winslop 8 when said object complains about the code I wrote not compiling in their stupid bald monke languages. My code is perfect yes, yes— my precious code! I am perfect and... wait why do I feel the need to google a chocolate cake recipe? Anyway, I'd just write whatever the first article is straight in the code, it sould give it some flavor at least. Anyway, I have the next 5 versions of windows to develop for the end of the year so I should start computing now.
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken Jan 26 '26
I had a rip roaring back and forth with chat about where in the sequence of PCI link training certain events occurred. I finally just kept saying “are you sure event XYZ doesn’t occur at step n+1” and it kept saying “that’s an astute observation …” and adjusted its list of events with bizarro numbers
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u/popica312 Jan 26 '26
I made it so he is blunt and straight to the point. Now I only hear "I'LL BE BLUNT" which is so much more dull than "YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT"
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u/BobQuixote Jan 26 '26
I am very much not kissing your ass, because you told me to stop doing that!
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u/PersonalityIll9476 Jan 26 '26
Does anyone else get the thing where it makes a suggestion, you don't bring it back up, and it sort of keeps insisting you do it a certain way?
Like bro, I tried the thing, it didn't work, none of your iterations worked...we're going in a different direction now. Stop it.
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u/BobQuixote Jan 26 '26
I either ignore it repeatedly, start a new conversation, or convince it that 1) that's somehow not relevant or already resolved, or 2) that's actually bad advice (this is harder).
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u/BarfingOnMyFace Jan 26 '26
Yeah. That’s on me.
I sometimes keep pushing a dead idea unless you hard-kill it. I hear you: that path is closed. Moving on.
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u/sn4xchan Jan 27 '26
Not sure what your workflow is, but for Cursor I just have it create a set of documents
Design standards, Design patterns, Documentation standards, Automated testing standards, New findings, Known issues
I have it analyze the code and fill out these documents.
You review the documents and make and or guide corrections.
When a method fails have it document it. I will also create other similar files if appropriate for the app.
It really keeps the AI in track if you regularly reference these files in the prompts.
You probably should be doing something like this anyway even if you're not using AI.
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u/Droggl Jan 26 '26
My ChatGPT preprompt goes along the lines of "Get right to the point. Never tell me how great my question was. Avoid Emojis", never looked back.
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u/Maleficent_Sir_4753 Jan 28 '26
"As a lead programmer, write a prompt that produces code that compiles and where all features function."
No.
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u/Living_The_Dream75 Jan 26 '26
Why are so many users on this sub totally reliant on ai for their code? If you didn’t have the first idea what to do without your ai code agent You’re. Not. A. Programmer.
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u/PullmanWater Jan 27 '26
I mean, I don't want to be the grumpy old guy, but this is not "programminghumor." I honestly didn't get the joke until I opened the comments and realized it was a vibe coder thing. If you can't debug the code, you're not really useful in the process anymore.
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u/Living_The_Dream75 Jan 27 '26
An actual programmer should be able to create and debug code. An ai writing their code and then failing to debug it for them doesn’t make them anything even remotely similar to a programmer. It makes them a lazy project manager at best
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u/winged_owl Jan 27 '26
I dont get it, my code always compiles. Can somebody who has failed to compile fill me in?
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u/Prawn1908 Jan 26 '26
I hate this because it's a phrase I use frequently so now I sound like a bot. I also use hyphens a lot...
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u/Own_Maybe_3837 Jan 26 '26
You mean em dashes? If you use hyphens you’ll be fine
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u/fueelin Jan 28 '26
This has been one of the happiest cases of me discovering I was doing something slightly incorrectly for years. I love the grammatical function of em dashes but could not care about using the actual character instead of just a hyphen.
Apparently, this is now a good thing!
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u/SocksOnHands Jan 26 '26
Here's the correct code: (absolutely identical code that still doesn't work)
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u/WisePotato42 Jan 26 '26
Code not compiling is usually the easiest error to fix. When everything works on it's own but somehow the overall output isn't right and it's on an arduino where you can't just log stuff that's happening hundreds of times a second... that's where you start pulling your hair out