Illusion of Free Choice Between Human-Written and AI-Written Terrible Code

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A meme using the classic 'The illusion... ...of free choice' template showing a cow approaching what appears to be two different paths but both lead to the same destination. The left path is labeled 'Human-written code', the right path is labeled 'AI-written code', and the single destination they both funnel into is labeled 'Terrible code'. The image has an imgflip.com watermark. The joke is that regardless of whether code is written by humans or AI, the end result is equally terrible -- there is no escape from bad code

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Turns out the real AI disruption was democratizing the ability to write code that makes senior engineers cry -- humans had a 50-year head start, but AI achieved parity in 2 years

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Turns out the real AI disruption was democratizing the ability to write code that makes senior engineers cry -- humans had a 50-year head start, but AI achieved parity in 2 years
Anonymous

The primary difference between the two paths is that 'human-written' terrible code has a `git blame` that points to a person, while 'AI-written' terrible code just points to a version number and a vague apology in the release notes
Anonymous

Great - now the on-call roulette is deciding whether the 3 a.m. stack trace starts with my initials or with “gpt-3.5-turbo,” but the pager still rings either way
Anonymous

After 20 years of writing code, the real revelation isn't that AI writes terrible code - it's that it writes terrible code with the same confident incorrectness we've been deploying to production all along, just 10x faster and with better documentation of why it's wrong
Anonymous

Turns out the real 'garbage collection' we needed wasn't in our runtime - it was for both our codebases and our AI prompts
Anonymous

Choose human or AI - after merge, git bisect still lands on utils/helpers.js, a 1200-line function that pages SRE at 02:00
Anonymous

Human code accrues tech debt linearly; AI parallelizes it across hallucinations
@ZmEYkA_3310 10mo

Yeah at least the human understands what hes doing tho
1. @mold_in 10mo
  
  oh really?
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 10mo
  
  Yeah, im pretty sure my code is fucking dogshit and shouldnt be used at all.
@mrYakov 10mo

Absolutely normal to look at code that you wrote earlier and think that it is shit. Thats mean your skills raised.
1. @ZmEYkA_3310 10mo
  
  Improving overnight 🥀🥀🥀