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by NitpickLawyer 597 days ago
|_____| <- dreck code

... ... ... |_____| <- it's good code, but toy problem

I guess we all see where the goalposts will be tomorrow. Good code, good problem, I don't like the language. Or something :)

1 comments

"Dreck" means worthless rubbish. Code that solves useless toy problems is worthless rubbish.
If you are to share your code with us, are you sure that we wouldn’t find any worthless rubbish code? If they do exist, can you be certain that they took you less than 5 mins to build like the GP asserted?

Take SQLite Wasm as an example:

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/21/claude-artifacts/#sqli...

Perhaps you don’t use database everyday, but a web based sql client is very common, very far from worthless, let alone rubbish. Imagine a developer being able to stand up this module in 5 mins, using it as the starting point for further work.

Are you getting offended on behalf of an "AI"? Seriously mate?