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[–] marlowe221@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months 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 34 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Is there a generator for these?

[–] zqwzzle@lemmy.ca 8 points 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)

Just use the paint, internet person

[–] QuazarOmega@lemy.lol 5 points 10 months ago

Bu-but we're programmers

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] kora@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Nice! Thanks. :3

Is there a bigger resolution btw?

[–] CapriciousDay@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago

Nice collection. Thanks! :)

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 2 points 10 months ago

Thank you for this.

[–] ambitiousslab@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago (1 children)

Feeling of deleting lines > Feeling of adding lines

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.