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When I started my professional life in the 90s, we used Visual J++ (Java) and remember all this damn code it generated to do UIs... I remember being aghast at
by gedy 7mo ago
When I started my professional life in the 90s, we used Visual J++ (Java) and remember all this damn code it generated to do UIs...
I remember being aghast at all the incomprehensible code and "do not modify" comments - and also at some of the devs who were like "isn't this great?".
I remember bailing out asap to another company where we wrote Java Swing and was so happy we could write UIs directly and a lot less code to understand. I'm feeling the same vibe these days with the "isn't it great?". Not really!
- justonceokay 7mo agoYou just brought me back to my first internship where as interns we were asked to hand-manipulate a 30k lines auto-generated SOAP API definition because we lost the license to the software that generated it
- drzaiusx11 7mo agoOh the memories, but at least that generated code was deterministic...
- bitwize 7mo agoI remember the first time trying to work with MFC. I was aghast at all the generated garbage the IDE produced. But I guess if you're a drone working in an insurance company somewhere, you don't want to have to deal with message loops, window classes, WinMain, and all that, so you would welcome all that stuff just being handled for you while you just filled in the application-specific code. To me, that was the fun part of programming against the Windows API. And it was gonna come bite you anyway, so in for a penny... Extrapolate to the present day with LLM-generated code. I'm sure you're not far off the actual mark.