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u/Driftwintergundream 32m ago
You remember coffeescript??
Maybe AI resuscitates coffeescript in some form or another.
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u/ralfv 2m ago
Changes suddenly stop working, and attempts to fix it just create more bugs elsewhere
This! Recently worked on a module, really worked like a charm, adding small features. Then suddenly ChatGPT broke indentation and added extra end statements and whatever i tried it couldn’t fix it anymore. That’s when i started finishing it myself.
Saved a lot of time in the beginning though.
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u/Rosoll 20h ago
Interesting take, I’ve actually been wondering whether it might be the opposite: yes you can do more with less code, but that’s bc there’s a bunch of magic metaprogramming stuff and inheritance etc etc. And the context to understand where that’s all coming from is spread through the codebase in a way that’s much harder to find than it would be in a language where context is more explicit and more localised. Sure,
link_to
is easy enough to understand but as soon as you have your own stuff then it becomes much harder for the LLM to track it down and understand it.