[paulcole]

> Forgetting code exists is by definition not suitable for serious work

This is just like everyone who says, “An iPad is not suitable for serious work.”

By which they (and you) generally mean, “What I do is serious work. What you do is unserious work.”

I think I do serious work – I mean they pay me for it? And I have only copy/pasted and just run whatever code’s been generated by AI for the past 12 months or so. Whenever I can I just let the AI run it itself.

Sad to learn that I’ve been so unserious all this time.

> Naming things is hard!

Indeed.

[andai]

Well, are you reading the code? If not, how can you vouch for the correctness?

[paulcole]

No, not reading the code. I vouch for the correctness because it runs and produces output that is useful. It might not be 100% right but neither was the code I wrote by hand.