Programmer Humor

You should definitely read the code, but the strict acceptance for generated code is a good starting place.

Who's this guy?

I don't know what those first two sentences are doing. This kind of thing is exactly what mesmerized young me and puts wise me off.

One thing worse than appealing to authority is appealing to your own authority.

Say this stupid bullshit was true: you’re spending so much time baby minding the fucking thing that you’re not saving time?!? I don’t doubt that slop generators can code. But can they generate good code AND save you time? No.

You started writing code in the 60s, yet you never quite mastered the craft, and you're proving it yet again. Remarkable.

Bob is a shithead

I'll say it again for the people in the back, even if you are a vibe coding twat, well designed code is a MUST even more so.

If you want your LLM to preform even to the crappy level they can the codebase needs to be clean.

I choose to believe this is satire. Also that this man holds no significant position of prominence within the industry.

/cope

So... test driven agent developments?

In my experience, agents tend to write functions significantly longer than 12 lines. Where's your clean code Bob?

People don't want to hear it, but this should be more common practice especially for human written code, and it's best if someone specializes in doing this sort of QA testing specifically.

Actually great. Boss with the LLM-shares is satisfied, because he met the quota. Customers are satisfied, because the code at least works.
It might still not be efficient or maintainable, even have some in the tests unaccounted-for (because they're ridiculous) errors. But aside from that...

I had a discussion with my boss today about potential ways to write code with AI and have confidence in the results without reviewing every line. You'd also have to automate the reviews in some way, and therefore also a way to confirm that the reviewer AIs are working properly, etc. The conversation discouraged me because it made me feel like I'll end up being a manager of AIs who write the code and test cases, and I'll just be an ape who manually tests some of the behavior before approving it for release. This is essentially what managers have been doing with human development and QA engineers in the past, but even so, I have a really hard time letting go and not reviewing every line of code myself.

Holy technical debt, uncle Bob.