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[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I might be in the minority, but I get more excited about the idea of maintaining/working on some creaky old legacy code base than I do about the idea of starting a new project from scratch.

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Is there a generator for these?

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 month ago

There are a few from a search, this one came up with a GitHub repo. https://arthurbeaulieu.github.io/ORlyGenerator/

[–] ddplf@szmer.info 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just use the paint, internet person

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 5 points 1 month ago

Bu-but we're programmers

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Do you have more of these memes? I'd like to see more.

[–] kora@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Here's some more.

Shared this with my team just recently. Guess there is a lot more of these brilliant edits.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nice! Thanks. :3

Is there a bigger resolution btw?

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

There should be a "saving thirty minutes in reading documentation by spending two days debugging a GPT generated method"

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

From the last time this came up I got most of them from this guys collection.

https://lemmy.ca/comment/11139658

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

Nice collection. Thanks! :)

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Thank you for this.

[–] ambitiousslab@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 month ago

Yes, me too! But, only if I have the autonomy to improve things where I can. Otherwise, I just find it demotivating

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

I enjoy this too, but it’s kind of rough when you’ve inverted control, teased apart unnecessary coupling, updated dependencies and backed everything with unit and other tests, but then your colleagues are too scared to code review it.

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Feeling of deleting lines > Feeling of adding lines

[–] boonhet@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

Ha, turns out there's one for that

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I find that working on production code with well defined use cases and requirements to be the most satisfying, and working on new proof of concept / demos / marketing tools to be the least satisfying.

So on balance, more of the legacy projects I've worked on have fit those criteria than the new builds, but the couple of new builds that had well defined use cases, and no legacy code to deal with were the absolute best.