So, I'm doing some freelance work for a company...

Holy shit their chatgpt chats.

I swear, they go to the level of import {isOdd} from 'is-odd';

Somehow I feel that I just can't lose any job because I'd be one of the very few able to function whenever openai is down...

Like, seriously, converting an int to base 32 (dunno why but ok). Just fucking take modulo 32^n repeatedly (and figure out how you wanna represent 32 values).

Also asking how to solve CORS errors in the frontend.

Or 3D programmers asking how to calculate the angle between two vectors... (They failed to even know what a vector is, they kept repeating the unity class names).

Why do I know? Because they asked me! I told them like "take the vector from your object origin to your target origin, (a simple substraction), normalize, and acos() the coordinate of the angle you want."

They were utterly baffled. I'd think someone working on 3D experiences in Unity would have at least very basic algebra knowledge....

Guess not...

idk any of those things but competence was never why I got in trouble at jobs lol

I'm slightly surprised they didn't pull up their phone && asked 'ChatGPT, what's a vector?'.

/jk

For base 32 I’d have to find letters after Z

@TeachMeCode the Chinese have a lot of cool "letters" :)
Or you could use emojis lol

@TeachMeCode

Base 64 uses uppercase and lowercase English alphabet, digits, + and / XD

@CoreFusionX yeah but that’s boring.
And you can’t distinguish between I and l.

Apparently is-odd gets more than 20 million downloads a year.

Worse still, is-even (which literally just returns !isOdd) gets more than 8 million downloads a year.

These people need to be whipped naked through the streets of Merthyr Tydfil.

@CoreFusionX them saying “I’m no math wiz I’m a dev dammit” won’t mean much if they don’t understand cors! And those 3d devs should probably at least get how 3d math works, then again I’m not caught up with graphics tbh or how much tools abstract all the math away

And is odd has been archived since 2020... Seeing as it uses old syntax, we can only hope that soon it will no longer be supported...

Tbh I’m sure they know how to check if somethings even, they prob use it bc it looks nicer to read