more programming crimes: "idk what this code does i blindly copied it" #oc#originalcharacter#art#programming

I see far too much of it as a software dev instructor. Everything falls apart when I ask them to explain their code. No clue.

In the last couple of years, I've seen a whole wave of new "programmers" teaching themselves through ChatGPT, and, uh... it's *bad*. These people have *no* idea what they're doing.

it is tempting to just grab some code the machine spits out cuz rtfm is more work and time spent but for the sake of learning from first principles, absolutely!

Its more fun to ask the neural net and then look it up to see what it got wrong. I've motivated myself to read way more documentation that way.

no *start's flying away

I just saw a guy who never touched a compiler decide to purchase a three pack of ESP32 boards and finally get into coding because of an LLMs suggestion. He took the initial code given to him and learned how/why it worked. That might not be the usual but it gave him the confidence to get into it.