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Child labour with 10 years of experience, 'AI-native' accepting 250k lines of Cursor code (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by illusionist@lemmy.zip to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
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[–] favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 79 points 11 months ago (2 children)

God, imagine debugging 250,000 lines of code to find some bug the AI created.

[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You expect those 250k lines to be comprehensible? In my experience they'll be an utter clusterfuck.

You can't fix the airplane if it turns out to be a boat with legs, 2 holes (worked around with 5 pumps) and 3.5 enormous ears tagged "wings".

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

a boat with legs, 2 holes (worked around with 5 pumps) and 3.5 enormous ears tagged “wings”

[–] Gumbyyy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It seems that AI really is good for some things after all

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I find the kind of absurd fever-dream images it conjures to be very entertaining. I try to put as many contradictory concepts into various generators to see what it comes up with.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 0 points 11 months ago

You expect those 250k lines to be comprehensible? In my experience they'll be an utter clusterfuck.

Even worse is if they're completely plausible, but there's a very subtle logic bug in there that is super hard to spot because of just how plausible everything is.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 24 points 11 months ago

One of a bajillion bugs.