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It seems like a nice idea: a place to point people to when they claim "no one writes without AI". Now we can say: "here's a great big list of people who do",

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[–] onlyhalfminotaur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Are we allowed to use LLMs to review code as long as we make changes by hand?

[–] Untamed_Star@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Can't believe you only accept people that write code by hand, stop discriminating people that write with their feet.

/j

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 hours ago

I used to work with a guy who was so afraid of losing the use of his hands in "a freak tractor accident" that he claims to have taught himself to type with his feet.

[–] ell1e@leminal.space 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Kind of funny (or sad?) that lemmy itself probably wouldn't make it on the list, given they seem adamant on allowing LLM coding: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-docs/pull/414/changes

~~Curiously enough I wasn't able to actually find any lemmy commit marked as created with the help of AI, other than some bug located by AI without indication that an AI fix was used. I wonder if that means either they don't adhere to their own rule, or whether they're not actually using AI but just felt like really being pro-AI anyway. Why though? I'm so curious.~~

Update: seems like they don't put it into the commit log, just the merge request info: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/6304

[–] theOneTrueSpoon@feddit.uk 3 points 8 hours ago

What if I just copy/paste from stack overflow?

[–] son_of_darkness@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Can we not change the name of what we do? It's not handcrafted coding, it's coding. The other variant is vibecoding.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Vibe coding is when you don't do any of it yourself or understand what's happening.

If you just use e.g the autocomplete tools in your IDE, or occasionally prompt the AI to generate test cases for you, that's not really vibe coding, but it should be enough that you shouldn't be on this list.

[–] andicraft@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

should really note that autocomplete comes in ai-free flavors too

Lol, emacs has auto complete. LLMs my ass. XD

[–] son_of_darkness@lemmy.world -1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Vibecoding is using AI in any form whatsoever. It doesnt need to have a bad connotation. You're conflating it with slop coding. I'm not fond of them still

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

I've used rpcgen. I guess I'm out.

[–] ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Get on the AI industry hit list here.

Nah, just kidding.

[–] SqueakyBeaver@piefed.blahaj.zone 13 points 20 hours ago

If anything the AI companies would probably use it to know which code to scrape since the models tend to collapse when trained on their own output

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

👋 If you would like to add your name to the directory, here's how to do it!

  1. Edit this file in your own fork.
  2. Submit the edit as a PR. In the description of the PR, supply some sort of social or technical proof that you have authored handcrafted code and it is currently in production. "In production" can mean either an app/service that people in public are using, or software module(s) being used by other publicly known software (aka an open source library).
  3. We will review your submission and, if it looks legit, we will publish it on handcraftedcode.org!
[–] expr@programming.dev 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds interesting but I'm not sure I can provide proof. I work on closed source software for a company and don't really have any online presence outside of this account.

I do everything the normal way (no LLMs) and am probably the only person left at my company doing so.

[–] ell1e@leminal.space 1 points 4 hours ago

Perhaps submit yourself anyway and just put that explanation into the pull request. I don't think the list is designed to be super bullet proof, I was merged without directly linking any code too (although I suppose it's not too hard to find). At the end of the day, a lot of the internet runs on the honor system still, for better and for worse.

[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Sounds complicated, I'll ask Claude to do it for me 👌

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Zos_Kia@jlai.lu 3 points 5 hours ago

I tried resisting the urge, but the dad in me is too strong

[–] babysmokesalot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Sometimes but I suck in general.

[–] danielquinn@lemmy.ca 7 points 19 hours ago

"Sucking at something is there first step toward being really good at something!" -- Jake the Dog