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[–] IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If they expect you to write or go through 1000s of lines of code in a single day. your whole job isn't programming, is to be the scapegoat.

[–] EowynCarter@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If I can't understand the code, and you can't explain, I'm not validating your pull request.

End of story.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Just ask ChatGPT to explain the code

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 7 points 2 weeks ago

It's great at that, had a colleague run a diff through Claude and it explained how the new code was better and how the optimizations worked. Then my colleague realised they'd run the diff the wrong way round, fed Claude the new diff and Claude happily explained how the new code was better and how the optimizations worked.