Just fucking code. \ stacker news ~devs

pull down to refresh

Just fucking code.www.justfuckingcode.com/

I’m not actually saying you should avoid AI tools. I used gippity to edit this fucking essay. It’s 2025, catch up you motherfucking luddites. But don’t expect AI generated code to be anywhere near perfect, and don’t expect furious re-prompting to be a replacement for understanding and writing software yourself.

view all related items

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @0xIlmari 3h

If you can’t invert a binary tree, why should you earn six figures?

Because there's an absolute bazinga of algorithms that's a waste of time to memorize because in your carreer you'll make run into needing 3.

For those 3 times there are LLMs which serve two functions:

glorified search engine which might even understand your predicament (you're NEVER the first person to encounter a problem) - "I have this data structure and need to do X. Is there an algorithm for that already?"
coding intern - "Okay, write me an A* solver for this graph."

I'm paid six figures to be the supervisor:

sanity check the intern by checking the code against a Wikipedia article
better yet, write fucking unit tests around what the AI spit out
integrate into the broader solution
know what tasks can be relegated to AI and which can't

Those tasks, LLMs are NOWHERE CLOSE to being able to do.

100 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 2h

This is interesting. Why do you think that a well tuned/instructed AI is worse at (for example) writing unit tests than humans though? When I write tests, I use structural analysis and perhaps some intuition, which is arguably seen as the most human trait in cognitive skills. If the premise that intuition is actually pattern recognition is true at all, then maybe it's just a matter of developing the right model?

To be clear, I'm not saying that I'd particularly like that outcome (one of the most pleasant interactions throughout my career has been with people that found bugs in my code, so I'd consider this a real loss socially), but I do think that this is actually a reasonable outcome, and probably soon, unless there is magic going on in intuition that we don't understand and can't emulate (yet). But then, it's still only a matter of time until we do discover it?

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @BlokchainB 7h

I wish it was easy to code on mobile. I think I would be more along in my journey if I didn’t have to use a desktop all the time.

198 sats \ 1 reply \ @rblb 5h

Back in the days, sometimes i used to code on a nokia n900 on my way back from school. Tbh it was the only thing that phone was good for, everything else was mostly an hack.

46 sats \ 0 replies \ @Riberet 5h

I loved that phone, the mobile phones with a keyboard from that time were the best.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @rblb 5h

If when you code you need to stop an wait for the LLM, you are the LLM.

56 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 8h

My 11 year old son vibe coded a browser game the other day without any prompting from me.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 2h

That scares me.

I guess it means that my kids can start working early.

69 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b OP 8h

Whoa. It makes me think that AI might allow children to become producers earlier.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 52m

Well, the game wasn't any good and didn't have any assets (the characters were just shapes on the screen)... but the base of the functionality was there

What struck me was more that this kind of thing can be achieved during a simple goof off session now. It's not like my son is a hard working driven person... he was just goofing off with ChatGPT and ended up doing this