Baldur BjarnasonAll the devs saying that Anthropic’s code quality is “normal” are telling on themselves and everybody they’ve worked with
(Also supports what many have been saying about software quality being a crisis that precedes LLMs, but that’s another story)
Moses Izumi@baldur
Sometimes I wonder if the practice of shipping every GUI-era computer with a development environment (getting the "rubes" invested in programming) would've prevented the current situation.
Sometimes I wonder if the practice of shipping every GUI-era computer with a development environment (getting the "rubes" invested in programming) would've prevented the current situation.
Orb 2069... Personally, I think IDEs are part of the problem - nobody needed Visual Studio to write BASIC code for their C64, mainly because the programming language is claw hammer straightforward. Learn a dozen keywords and 3 concepts(variables, loops, ifs) , and you're off!
GunChleoc@Orb2069 @moses_izumi @baldur IDEs are great when you need to learn a big codebase though that you want to clean up, because you can navigate through functions and find their usages really fast. Having to grep everything and manually open the files in a text editor is very time consuming.
@gunchleoc
Fair, but nobody learns to fly a plane on the flight deck of a 747 - they sit you in a cessna with six gauges and maybe six controls if you include the radio PTT.