This is a great write-up. And a bit generous to the “developer” in question.
I’m not entirely sure I’ve written 250,000 lines of code yet, in my entire decades as a professional developer. If I have, it’s a near thing.
Not to brag, but I can reuse existing libraries and get many things done with 5 or 10 lines of code.
It’s hard to crack 250,000 when 5-10 lines solves each of my employer’s problems.
And this young developer supposedly solved one problem with 250,000 lines of code.
After giving it some thought, I’m like 90%40% (edit: okay, 40% after hearing some anecdotes, haha.) sure this is just a parody post. Even AI can’t be that bad at this, right?
This is just some library too, not their main application.
I know “lines of code” is bullshit but just for reference I looked it up and apparently curl is ~180k lines of code.
I can’t imagine how crufty this fucking code must be, assuming this is even real because it seems too ludicrous.
This kind of thing is real. Newbies don’t have experience to know how important architecture is. They continuously mash code without thinking too much. Generative machines have made the problem orders of magnitude worse. It used to be limited to the amount of garbage a human could mash into their keyboard. Now it’s like generated art. People churn out infinite images. They haven’t actually drawn the image themselves.
This is a great write-up. And a bit generous to the “developer” in question.
I’m not entirely sure I’ve written 250,000 lines of code yet, in my entire decades as a professional developer. If I have, it’s a near thing.
Not to brag, but I can reuse existing libraries and get many things done with 5 or 10 lines of code.
It’s hard to crack 250,000 when 5-10 lines solves each of my employer’s problems.
And this young developer supposedly solved one problem with 250,000 lines of code.
After giving it some thought, I’m like
90%40% (edit: okay, 40% after hearing some anecdotes, haha.) sure this is just a parody post. Even AI can’t be that bad at this, right?This is just some library too, not their main application. I know “lines of code” is bullshit but just for reference I looked it up and apparently
curlis ~180k lines of code. I can’t imagine how crufty this fucking code must be, assuming this is even real because it seems too ludicrous.This kind of thing is real. Newbies don’t have experience to know how important architecture is. They continuously mash code without thinking too much. Generative machines have made the problem orders of magnitude worse. It used to be limited to the amount of garbage a human could mash into their keyboard. Now it’s like generated art. People churn out infinite images. They haven’t actually drawn the image themselves.