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Vibe coders don't know shit!
(lemmy.nz)
Replace/append with medicated ADHD people
I used to write a ton of code while caffeinated.
Now I write less, better code since quitting caffeine.
There was a brief period where I was incapable of doing anything at all between the state of high caffeination and no caffeination.
since quitting caffeine
Sorry, can you explain this part?
I don't understand how you can quit ~~breathing~~ caffeine
I moved to half caff for a few weeks, then to decaf. I still have a cup of coffee every morning as part of my routine. The headaches were brutal on both changes, and I regret not taking longer to do so.
It began when I noticed caffeine pouches being sold at a gas station. Not pills, which feel like a drug, pouches, just like the Zyn pouches. The difference is caffeine can be sold to minors. I realized when I saw them that caffeine is simply another insidious drug being peddled to the masses to keep us locked in addictions, feeding the machine with our hard earned money.
You do not need the stimulant. You do not need the pacifier. You will not enjoy going without, until you learn how much better you feel without.
So u were always high, what coding makes u do
Yeah, always high. I quit weed and caffeine at the same time. Quit alcohol 7 months ago. Nicotine a year ago. I'm completely sober for the first time in 13 years as of a few months ago. It wasn't the code's fault. It was depression. TBH the coding was a way to gain some control over my life. It gave me reasons to dive deeper into my addictions though.
Be me AudADHD locking the fuck in doing 10 hours of work in 2 hours when the legal meth kicks in. But it's at 11:37pm and sometimes it's wikiholes on GBU stabilizer fin evolutions instead of work.
And then I waste the rest of the next 2 days.
Vibe coders not understanding their code because they didn't write it.
Me not understanding my code because I wrote it a month ago.
Vibe coders not understanding their code because they didn’t write it.
Me not understanding my code because I wrote it a month ago.
...we are not the same :P
My workflow is :
Step one: write down a bunch of nonsense, massive block comments of old code in case the new code is worse, and cludges in one massive file.
Step two: rewrite the whole thing: breaking it down into classes so it's readable and maintainable ...
Step 3: come back later and wonder where the hell anything is. Go to step 1
Step 4: realize the shit was simpler and better without the classes.
What about us caffeinated autistic vibe coders? Slop production through the roof bb!
They exist, but I'd like to pretend they don't.
I put together a new modpack for minecraft this year and from that i can verify that this comment definitely checks out.
Link or it didn't happen.
Its not a public pack sorry But the changelogs for some mods speak for themselves no human does 20 seperate release updates in a day and comments every sentence with an emoticon
I'm going to lose my mind if I get any more support tickets where someone has cut and pasted the output from Claude instead of telling me what the problem actually was.
My job has basically turned into guessing what bad info Claude has given
Honestly, this isn't even an AI issue, people have been doing that long before AI became a thing
Getting a ticket "I need you to change blah" and the request is either nonsense or "fixes" something unrelated to what the user is actually experiencing, but they're so sure they know
This weirdly is way worse when you support technical teams, it makes it pretty clear how much Dunning Kruger is going around in IT... But yeah, AI is making it so much worse
When I was selling Apple gear, there was a lady who told another customer in front of me as I was talking to them, that Mac's can't get viruses lol
I have noticed though, that yeah.. The same overconfident donkeys that exist everywhere else, are now in IT telling IT people that their toddlerbot is smart
My god, had someone send in a merge request with utter garbage, with Claude describing some nonsensical "root cause" as to why a function didn't work. Claude made two changes:
- If the current scheme failed, use an entirely different scheme it claimed the software supports that does not work and was never documented as a way to work.
- If that scheme fails, swallow the error and don't report the problem, leaving the problem silently in place but out of the user's view at least for a short while. This is actually the change that 'fixed' the problem.
So I needed to know the debug data for what really went wrong, but the submitter got all pissy and said Claude already sorted it out and why can't I just accept their slop merge request as-is, refusing to believe that all it did was catch and silently drop any and all errors associated with the code instead of fixing it. Wouldn't run the procedure I stated would show them they had messed up data as a result of their 'fix'.
I like to tell them, “well my Claude said this.”
You can just point out the issues to Claude and get it to spew out AI slop on how those issues are the worst thing in the world, horrible bad bugs.
Fighting fire with fire. Except you’re actually trying, which means you can’t really loose.
In their defence, the one thing AI does do well is Code review. But, it makes too many absolutely sh** assumptions when helping customers troubleshooting.
I feel the problem is that because its a paid tool, it's not a good look if they simply acknowledge "we're guessing, and its a crap guess"
Looks like there is an angry cryptobro downvoting responses who dare talk shit about claude in this thread lol
Absolutely infuriating.
We had a customer demand support for a competitors product, because Google AI told them that we owned that company.
Just complete the AI slop trough and copy and paste the ticket back into Claude to fix and open an MR and then have Claude review it and merge and then when there is a bug repeat the process.
I honestly don't know what people are thinking, both employees and employers when people start copy pasting LLM shit. Why do I need you if all you are is a glorified macro? I strongly suspect the human is there to be the fall guy when the LLM invariably does something really stupid.
Imagine all the recursive meat proxies we have in the industry right now, like an infinite redirect loop with MITM to do the networking.
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Work slop! Just love people using LLMs to hand the heavy lifting over to me.
*was given
The fabled meat proxies.
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I dont know how you can code while caffeinated I need to drink to write code
Back when I was studying, I had a final exam on my last year (so basically one of the most important exams in my career) that was about PHP. It was 3h, and we had to complete a theory part and then code a bunch of stuff.
I attended that exam while completely drunk. So much so that I don't remember anything about it. Somehow I didn't get kicked out.
I genuinely expected to fail it, and instead I got my best grade up to that point, an 8/10.
Ah, actually, caffeine can be really contra-productive for autistic people.
I was only ever observed to have autism, but I highly suspect that I'm audhd. What kind of hell is this where caffeine can help my ADHD focus but harms my autistic focus
Caffeine be like:
I'm doing thousands of calculations per second and they're all wrong
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