People who share the size of a codechange as a mark of how effective ai coding agents are truly missing the point of code changes.
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2026
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I'm just a hobbyist, but I'm always more proud of commits that remove stuff.
Removing shit and it still working perfectly the same is absolutely a goal everyone should have. Less code means less to maintain.
And being more performant, the perfect trio
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i refactored some web code i wrote ten years ago and it's more elegant and a tenth the size with new features because of language advancements. feels great.
People who've never reviewed a PR be like. Wow green number big, is good.
Didn’t you hear? We’re going back to KLOC for measurement of productivity.
If we're going back to the 80s, do we at least get the company provided cocaine?
those aren't upvotes?
Lines added, lines deleted
You reminded me of a story I recently read, where the author highlighted just how much awesome programming someone had done by describing how their hands were cramping up.
It's like estimating how well an artist paints by looking at how much paint is on their clothes, or judging how good a cook is by how many cuts and burns they have. The actions that cause those things are incidental to the process, not central, and an excessive amount points to incompetence, not hard and skillful work.
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Come see why you're all wrong sore losers, here in a lenghty rantarticle I explain why AI is so good and is going to replace you all:
Hey thats my website! Gemini, call the police!
Every breath you take starts playing on the background...
You rang? (My user's name in my laptop is gemini, and in my home pc, and anywhere i use my flake really), btw check out my terminal cool right?:
It doesnt look right in the tty though, i havent bothered to make it change the characters for some it can print, i use oh-my-posh btw, and fish.
I love the https and port 80 combo. Really sells the incompetence.
That’s what makes it obvious that this person has been around the block. Or a few blocks.
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That page is filthy. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Goddammit, I clicked.
pointing to 80 port was the salt in the wound, i presume?
With https no less
Theres too many s's in https
vibes = vibes-3
if (outage) {
fix()
}
Coding is so easy
You know what's funny?
I use AI to develop software. However when I'm looking for libraries to do things if I see a CLAUDE.md file I have to look and see when it was added and hold it against the library if it's early in the history.
It's like prewar steel.
I also recognize it's hypocritical.
I love this sabotage. Has this worked against anyone that you know of yet?
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It's the difference between checking for questions in stack overflow and implementing solutions VS pasting every SO solution blindly until something works.
I do use autocomplete and ask plenty questions, sometimes even use an agent so it makes small changes that I then review and test, but I would never commit unchecked changes, and a claude.md implies that the AI is coding AND committing without supervision.
I can't stress enough how different those scenarios are.
It's not hypocritical. Because you use AI to code, you know how easy it is to just let the AI do it's thing and not check it's work. It's almost like a sirens song. So you know the odds that a library that was coded with AI probably wasn't checked by a human. That's just called experience.
We are n weeks away for not needing developers anymore
Let n be a natural number, and b be the time to the next major extinction event.
Positive diff? Pfft, amateurs. If I ever see even a 1000 line PR I'm instantly rejecting and closing it. Learn to code, not generate bullshit.
1000 lines isn't that unreasonable for a PR. Commit size matters more.
If you write tests and add features you can easily go up to 1000, don’t know what you're talking about
Live by the vibes, die by the vibes.
I'm pretty sure the shitty Windows upgrades as of late has been vibecoded as well.
ms themselves confirmed it, "bragging" that 30% of windows updates are written by ai
I like that this is lowkey a Polymarket Advertisement too. The internet truly is a wonderous place.
Look mommy, I made big poo poo.
that's good, mandatory meetings always (ALWAYS) solve the problem! /s
Slop points aside, I found 5.4 to be pretty ass compared to 5.3 codex. Took way longer and wasted more tokens.
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Figures Reddit has a Codex sub, where they are all shilling for it.
I think my least favorite part of Lemmy is all the posted screenshots of tweets. It just took me 3 tries to get to these comments.
What benefit do tweet screenshots serve?
I know what context they are looking at and I don't need to make a twitter account to view the relevant replies.
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