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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 36 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

actually, be exactly like bill. boss wants slop, boss gets slop.

boss wants incomprehensible buggy code? that's right, boss gets incomprehensible buggy code.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 days ago

Be sure to ask Claude to remove all comments, tests, and dry runs, then ask if there's a good way you can make the code more complicated without increasing runtime more than 40%.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Sorry, you were hired as a prompt engineer, your prompt wasn't good enough to make perfect code, so you are fired

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nah. A bunch of llm code review agents say that produced code is of high quality, fire anyone who said it would have taken for them to implement same functionality more time than I have spent

[–] Enkrod@feddit.org 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Not if boss wants my name (and thus responsibility) on it.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 days ago

i'm losing a job, they are hopefully losing a business.

[–] python@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

That's only fine as long as there aren't coworkers who have to fix all that shit

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago

you mean by unionizing right?