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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by NortySpock on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @10:20AM (#43622104)
I think there will still be room for "debugging AI slop-code" and "performance-turning AI slop-code" and "cranking up the strictness of the linter (or type-checker for dynamically-typed languages) to chase out silly bugs" , not to mention the need for better languages / runtime that give better guarantees about correctness.

It's the front-end of the hype cycle. The tech-debt problems will come home to roost in a year or two.

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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by AlexandrB on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @11:07AM (#43622649)
> I think there will still be room for "debugging AI slop-code" and "performance-turning AI slop-code"

Ah yes, maintenance, the most fun and satisfying part of the job. /s

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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by WesolyKubeczek on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @11:21AM (#43622860)
Congrats, you’ve been promoted to be the cost center. And sloppers will get to the top by cranking out features you will need to maintain.
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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by popularonion on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @11:40AM (#43623066)
> slopper

new 2025 slang just dropped

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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by bobnamob on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @05:48AM (#43630457)
Just wait till 'slopper' starts getting classified as a slur
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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by WesolyKubeczek on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @08:04AM (#43631169)
"Slopper" maybe not, but "slophead"...
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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by genewitch on Wednesday April 09, 2025 @10:35AM (#43632636)
That's sloppy programming. You are promoted.
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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by Terr_ on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @09:02PM (#43627944)
A pre-existing problem, but it's true LLMs will make it worse.
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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by unraveller on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @12:38PM (#43623690)
You work in the slop mines now.
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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by 65839747 on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @08:24PM (#43627778)
> It's the front-end of the hype cycle. The tech-debt problems will come home to roost in a year or two.

The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.

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Re:An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force by fc417fc802 on Tuesday April 08, 2025 @09:00PM (#43627933)
> not to mention the need for better languages / runtime that give better guarantees about correctness.

Use LLM to write Haskell. Problem solved?

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