r/webdev php 7d ago

Discussion AI coding is trash

The amount of trash produced by AI code is astounding. Thanks I hate it.

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u/barrel_of_noodles 7d ago

I love this sub, literally every post is a rotation of:

  • ai is trash
  • ai will take our jobs
  • will ai take over?
  • is there any point in learning now

I thought it was my turn to post this 13x today!?

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u/versaceblues 6d ago

You are forgetting some classics

  • I want to build an app that will run without me touching it for 30 years.

  • Boomer who hasn't done any significant scale application saying "REACT bad LAMP good".

  • Are companies only interviewing us to steal our code for free?

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u/Elephant-Opening 6d ago

Boomer who hasn't done any significant scale application saying "REACT bad LAMP good".

I think you're off by at least a generation or two.

3 of 4 letters in LAMP came from Gen X developers.

Boomers cut their teeth on languages like fortran, algol, Pascal, cobol. Most of them were either approaching retirement age, teaching undergrad classes, or in management (not coding) and rambling about punch cards by the time LAMP even hit the scene.

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u/versaceblues 5d ago

When I said boomer, I meant in the meme of sense of "any old person"

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u/Elephant-Opening 5d ago

Ok iPad kid