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by dryarzeg 142 days ago
const int EIGHT = 8 lol

I really doubt any AI (even some small local models) would actually generate something like this :)

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I've run into something akin to `const int EIGHT = 7`.

Courtesy of TCS.

Agreed. This reads more like a very junior dev reads static analysis warnings and extracts it into a constant to satisfy the ide. An LLM would at least give the constant a slightly abstracted name.
> const int EIGHT = 8 lol

> “The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.”

> — Early FORTRAN manual for Xerox Computers, attributed to David H. Owens.

Yeah, I don’t think this is a case of ai slop. LLMs tend to be verbose with the comments but are fine with magic constants, at least from my experience.