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[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Someone hasn't done enough debugging in their life. I wish the lesson be as painless as possible

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works -1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm definitely still a noob but I've done hundreds of hours of debugging on code in the past few months, and my job for the past 8 years is basically to troubleshoot issues, though the past year I got to start doing devops/code work on the side.

Its fine though, I get why you guys are scared.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Then you should know that code not working is the absolute easiest fuckup to catch. It's literally not one to be concerned about.

One in a million chance of an edge case that doesn't throw an error at all, but does something unexpected? Good luck if you don't know how the system works.

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I do and please name a single human written program that doesn't have a fuck up edge case that isn't literally just hello world.

Neither humans nor AI generally write flawless code

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 points 9 hours ago

Neither humans nor AI write flawless code, but if you actually understand how your code works, you'll have a significantly easier time finding that edge case, with or without AI.

If you only ever let your AI do everything for you, you're at its mercy for debugging.

[–] Shanmugha@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

All that and you still think that "doesn't work" is the only problem that can happen?