Post #39958

2025-12-07 22:49 UTC

I mean I was trying to solve a problem t’other day (hobbyist) - it told me to create a function foo(bar): await object.foo(bar) then in object function foo(bar): _foo(bar) function _foo(bar): original_object.foo(bar) like literally passing a variable between three wrapper functions in two objects that did nothing except pass the variable back to the original function in an infinite loop add some layers and complexity and it’d be very easy to get lost

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@theparadox@lemmy.world 2025-12-08 00:47

The few times I’ve used LLMs for coding help, usually because I’m curious if they’ve gotten better, they let me down. Last time it was insistent that its solution would work as expected. When I gave it an example that wouldn’t work, it even broke down each step of the function giving me the value of its variables at each step to demonstrate that it worked… but at the step where it had fucked up, it swapped the value in the variable to one that would make the final answer correct. It made me wonder how much water and energy it cost me to be gaslit into a bad solution. How do people vibe code with this shit?

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@vpol@feddit.uk 2025-12-08 06:30

As a learning process it’s absolutely fine. You make a mess, you suffer, you debug, you learn. But you don’t call yourself a developer (at least I hope) on your CV.

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