A developer's life in 4 lines

1.My code doesn’t work. I don't know why.

2.My code works. I don't know why.

3.I change nothing.

4.My code stops working. I still don't know why.

Is it just me, or is "hope" the most common programming language?

It's like that since AI development. Before that I had everything under control 😂 But the art of making it work exactly how you want it using AI is the ultimate challenge. I'm very happy with the direction we are going now. But I'm a but worried for people who choose AI defaults, the AI defaults are literally the opposite of how I write software. There is a chance we will have very heavy client side applications.

@whimsical The AI defaults are basically 'How to make a browser cry 101'.

Honestly it’s about how you deal with complexity as the code grows.

If you neglect some principles of good programming, you‘ll soon be overrun by bugs which don’t make any sense.

Gen AI only makes it worse as you don’t have full control of the code and also don’t have the knowledge of the code. You are fixing problems by their symptoms rather than by their root causes.

Doing stuff without understanding why it does or doesn't work will lead you to madness and an intractable urinary tract infection.

And yes, AI encourages you to do exactly that.

It's you, but yes we need a programming language named "Hope".

@Lensflare Thank you for this suggestion

@donkulator 💯

@afaIk Yes, Indeed

@afaIk we already have that "programming language". It’s called JavaScript.
You write your code and then you hope that it doesn’t shit itself at runtime.

this guy is AI or something. this joke's been reposted like 100 times, and his first post similarly made no human sense

@jestdotty Your way of saying things always leaves me wondering wtf you actually wanted to say. I also don’t know if you agree or disagree with me. :D

But I will say that consistency alone isn‘t going to improve anything. So you're wrong.

Here is a simple example:
Naming every variable and function with a string of the letter "a", like "aaaaaaaaaaaaaa" is consistent but stupidly useless.

@jestdotty oh, the old jestdotty is back. And I started to wonder if you changed for the better.
This time I won’t bite the ragebait though.
Go troll someone else.