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minus-squareTropicalDingdong@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-22 days agoThe bigger issue I see is that it also results in less experienced coders creating code that might work, but that they don’t understand.
minus-squareirotsoma@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 days agoAnd in reality it doesn’t work, or only works in very specific scenarios and thus fails with no one who wrote it around to understand why it might have failed.
minus-squareFreedomAdvocatelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoJust like Stack Overflow then haha. It’s usually either “I copied this persons code exactly, why doesn’t it work in my completely different codebase?” or “I copied this persons code exactly and it works in mine! I don’t want to touch it in case I break it cause I don’t get it” haha
The bigger issue I see is that it also results in less experienced coders creating code that might work, but that they don’t understand.
And in reality it doesn’t work, or only works in very specific scenarios and thus fails with no one who wrote it around to understand why it might have failed.
Just like Stack Overflow then haha. It’s usually either
“I copied this persons code exactly, why doesn’t it work in my completely different codebase?”
or
“I copied this persons code exactly and it works in mine! I don’t want to touch it in case I break it cause I don’t get it”
haha