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> "guess and check" programming All the most advanced computer science research areas right now basically come down to guess and check. E.g. AI, ML, NLP, etc.
by Alex3917 4y ago
> "guess and check" programming
All the most advanced computer science research areas right now basically come down to guess and check. E.g. AI, ML, NLP, etc. The folks behind spaCy have a good talk somewhere explaining that this is the reason why there isn't more academic funding things like NER, despite the fact that it's an insanely valuable problem.
But regardless, the best programmers you know probably spend most of their week doing guess and check.
- mjr00 4y agoThat's not the kind of guess and check I'm talking about. I'm talking about just copy and pasting things, moving variables around, etc. without any real methodology. Just doing arbitrary changes to the code until it appears that a problem is fixed, because they don't have the deeper understanding to explain why a problem is occurring. The best programmers I know do not do this.
- ThrowawayR2 4y agoPerhaps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_debugging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shotgun_debugging would be closer to the desired meaning?