Google Is My University

The modern software development lifecycle: pour some StackOverflow solutions and GitHub snippets into your old project, call it a new web app, and hope nobody notices the coffee stains. Who needs original code when you can just recycle the same 5 functions you've been using since 2015? The "pour and pray" method is basically 90% of web development at this point. Bonus points if you rename a few variables to make it look like you actually wrote something new.

THE BETRAYAL! THE AUDACITY! You sit there, copying code from a tutorial with the precision of a heart surgeon, only to have your computer LAUGH IN YOUR FACE when it doesn't work. There you are, a teddy bear of confusion, arms raised to the coding gods, silently screaming "I LITERALLY DID EXACTLY WHAT THEY SAID!" Meanwhile, hidden somewhere in the abyss of your code is a microscopic semicolon playing hide and seek, or perhaps the tutorial was written by a sadistic genius who deliberately left out one crucial line just to watch the world burn. The emotional damage is immeasurable.

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The eternal developer's dilemma in flowchart form! If AI-generated code doesn't work, it's a hard "DON'T DO IT." If it works but you have no clue why? Also "DON'T DO IT" (future you will curse present you during debugging). But if it works AND you understand why? "SURE" go ahead! This is basically the modern version of "I found this snippet on StackOverflow" except now we're copying from robots instead of humans. The flowchart perfectly encapsulates that brief moment of temptation when ChatGPT spits out something that runs without errors but feels like forbidden magic. Remember folks: understanding > working code.

Content Y Hacker News new threads past comments ask show jobs submit best 1. A "AI is dangerous", says CEO of Sigma Technologies (arxiv.org) 1678 points by Akronymus 5 days ago 874 comments 2. A Apple to invest 200 millions in PHP (techcrunch.com) 1371 points by topshelf 5 days ago 835 comments 3. A California bans Taco Tuesdays (forbes.com) 1229 points by etiam 4 days ago 470 comments 4. A Why I stopped using toilet paper (substack.com) 820 points by mfiguiere 4 days ago 729 comments 5. A Rust 4.3.2 released (rust-lang.org) 790 points by werner 3 days ago 157 comments 6. A Stop using compilers (medium.com) 750 points by dagurp 4 days ago 432 comments ProgrammerHumor.

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