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Had me in the first part (media.piefed.social)

submitted 1 day ago by Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] Gyroplast@pawb.social 65 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupére

+55653, -937? That is not beauty, even if it all "worked".

[–] regdog@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I would say a few new lines are OK if they at least improve the readability of the code.

But given that AI was doing the work, I would say it is even less readable now.

[–] Gyroplast@pawb.social 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Slinging random quotes at Jr. devs works best if you have one for every rebuttal:

Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler. — Albert Einstein

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 1 points 21 hours ago

Analysis is easy. Synthesis is hard. Me.