Do you have the email address of this devil guy? I’d like to chat.
Hi this is the devil guy. Just catch and swallow all exceptions and you’re golden.
Ah, so you are the guy who created “On Error Resume Next” in Visual Basic and populated it in the beginning of every function in my company’s code! I hate you!
“On Error Resume Next” in Visual Basic
This is always presented as the worst thing about Visual Basic, which is incorrect. The worst thing was “On Error Resume” which just re-executed the line that caused the error in the first place.
I never, ever hated my job as a programmer as much as when I was forced to do pair programming. If I’d wanted to be around another person all day, I never would have become a programmer in the first place.
They forgot vasking an llm for help fixing it for them.
I actually asked chatGPT about a specific issue I had and solved a while back. It was one of these issues where it looked like a simple naive solution would be sufficient, but due to different conditions that fails, you have to go with a more complex solution. So, I asked about this to see what it would answer. And it went with the simpler solution, but with some adjustments. The code also didn’t compile. But it looked interesting enough, for me to question my self. Maybe it was just me that failed the simpler solution, so I actually tried to fix the compile errors to see if I could get it working. But the more I tried to fix its code the more obvious it got that it didn’t have a clue about what it was doing. However, due to the confidence and ability to make things look plausible, it sent me on a wild goose chase. And this is why I am not using LLM for programming. They are basically overconfident junior devs, that likes mansplaining.
It’s not always right but it saves me tonnes of time at work, usually when I want to do something simple in a language or environment I’m not totally familiar with.
It can reliably copy the simple things in it’s training data from stackoverflow.
But at that point, why not just go to stackoverflow instead?
It has encouraged my colleagues to get answers from it that would be easily available with a google search (and by asking me - my fault for acting like they are a pita for not extrapolating from previous explanations). Resulting in:
- Trying to
sudo apt installon a RHEL system- Looking for an
aptRPM package on the internet
- Looking for an
- Looking for RPM packages of almost every unavailable thingy on the internet.
- In general, succeeding 90% at a task (not 90% of the times, but 90% part of it) and going with it. Only to later realise the remaining 10% invalidated all their effort.
I don’t do it enough, but I do enjoy using it (it being perplexity.ai) for getting code examples of stuff I’m always looking up over and over. A YAML sample of a Cloudformation or CDL snippet for a very specifically configured resource. A YAML sample of an Ansible module that does a thing. A Python sample of a specific lambda method. A regex for email addresses.
When I was a kid, I programmed a jump and run game and each time I found a bug, I made a new level in which you needed to use it.
I love the little bug holding up the stick supporting everything in the stack overflow.