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  • You S Bluespatmikemid@sfba.social
    Jun 17, 2025, 8:36 PM

    @nixCraft After 11 work hours trying to figure out why my deployment was failing, I almost fed the error messages into Claude or something similar. Instead, I took a break, went to the store, ate lunch and, full disclosure, had a beer. I then figured it out in about 45 minutes..

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  • Phil Haighgulfie@mastodonapp.uk
    Jun 17, 2025, 9:25 PM

    @nixCraft I’m genuinely of the age that I only need to scrape by for another 3-4 years before I can leave this all behind me. To be honest, I can’t wait.

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  • Nerbnerb@techhub.social
    Jun 18, 2025, 12:35 AM

    @nixCraft

    I was asked to join forces by someone that was working on a similar idea. Mine is interfacing to a higher resolution device that I have already created a board for so they decided that part would be from my code. Or so I thought, the self proclaimed leader ran it through Gemini to interface it with their code that is being written by Gemini.

    Apparently it is not familiar with 3 wire SPI or the particular chip I am working with so it rewrote all the code. Told him it will not work and his reply was it compiles. So I said give it a try when the sensor board I sent to you arrives.
    Got back you are right it did not work could you look over what it wrote to see what is wrong?

    Nope

    In hindsight would not have sent the board or further communication when I found how he did not know to to code and used AI to write .

    But you are right it did look impressive.

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  • Bill Zaumenbzdev@fosstodon.org
    Jun 18, 2025, 1:48 AM

    @nixCraft I once had a similar (but much more limited) problem: I used a program what was supposed to make your code look nice - just adjusting line breaks and indentation, and it created a bug or compiler error. It was years ago, so I don't remember all the details, but it probably involved how a C or Java operator or operator precedence was handled.

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  • VulcanTouristVulcanTourist@autistics.life
    Jun 18, 2025, 2:08 AM

    @nixCraft

    I recall that, while taking my one COBOL course, I conceived a tactic that almost made my COBOL code elegant, but it still got the job done and just as efficiently. The teacher was impressed and dumbfounded; he'd never seen anyone else construct COBOL that way.

    Claude 4 wouldn't have replaced even the me from 42 years ago.

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  • BoxOfSnooboxofsnoo@social.linux.pizza
    Jun 18, 2025, 1:24 PM

    @nixCraft I think the big problem is monolithic spaghetti code. There are probably globals thrown around and implicitly instantiated stuff like crazy.

    Stick with the modular code and fix it! If you were to do it as a human, I guarantee you’d break it too, but it would take weeks or months to refactor. Been there.

    Use the AI for more than just *one call*… at this point you could just tell it what the problem is and since it already has scanned your code base, betcha it could find and fix the issue.

    I have many decades of coding experience and I 100% can do what I do without AI. However, it can be a revelation if you do it right.

    But the memes. I get it.

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