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> The ability to read and mentally parse and execute code will become extremely important Scarily, it'll probably become more scarce at the same time. It's a l
by noduerme 4y ago
> The ability to read and mentally parse and execute code will become extremely important
Scarily, it'll probably become more scarce at the same time. It's a lot easier to parse code in your head when you're writing it every day from the ground up. Even a couple weeks away from your own code makes it harder to follow, no matter how well commented it is. Working with other people's code is always an order of magnitude harder, but there's an unspoken trust that they at least put their mind to it and tested it against the tasks it was supposed to perform.
Reading mostly-AI-generated code to spot bugs could be a specialty indeed, but it's one perfectly adapted to black hat hackers.
- boringuser2 4y agoCommented?
- noduerme 4y ago//explain what I mean : No. //damn you, explain why I wrote this code. : Who knows, meat dummy?
- boringuser2 4y agoHonestly, I feel that the code I write is self-documenting unless there's an obscure gotcha that necessitates a comment.
- ChatGTP 4y ago…hint the code you write yourself is not self-documenting. Signed, yourself from the future.
- noduerme 4y agoTrust me, if you're lucky enough to get to sharpshoot your own code and refine it every couple years, you really want as many comments as possible to get you into the headspace you were in when you reduced it the first couple times. If its logic is still readable without any comments, then it probably isn't very dense code. I go back and look at shit I wrote ten or fifteen years ago and feel like it was written by a super intelligent alien. The again, I feel a weak version of that when I look at code I wrote last month. So yeah, commenting