I don’t recall this spell proc-ing while in Albion.
If it’s adding that many lines, it’s not refactoring. It’s just adding slop.
The best refactors always remove more lines than they add. This is a horrifying ratio if no new features were included.
Yeah, adding that many lines does not sound like a cleanup to me. Unless it’s mostly adding unit tests.
I’ve never seen a “refactor” create substantially more lines of code.
Its probably 10 paragraphs of comments or something, for some reason AI really loves commenting on everything
Ive done a few of those, but they were all preparatory refractors, pulling out bits of code to turn them into standalone functions that are only used once because my next PR uses them, and then adding unit tests for those new functions. -100 or so lines of code, +300 or so when you take into account the new docstrings, etc.
(The secret to doing these preparatory refractors is to actually do them after writing the “next” PR so you’re not unnecessarily refactoring stuff you’re going to touch.)
follow clean code book best practices once, you will
It is wild that Anthropic decided to go with “Claude”, as in “Claude Shannon”, as in the guy who formally proved that information degrades every time it passes through a channel that can’t represent it in a mathematically reversible way.
If you can’t theoretically produce the original code, given the “refactored” code… congratulations, you have lost information.
If the movie Tron were true, or The Matrix, and code was alive and sentient, things like this would be horror on the level of the Star Trek: TMP transporter accident.
It’s beyond spaghetti code. We need a new word for it: Cthulhu code
Codethulhu. Though that name isn’t mine. I grabbed it from an old story about a company that kept a code base composed exclusively of decompiled Java.
Sounds atrocious
Aha, found it: https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The_Call_of_Codethulhu
(It’s worse than I remember)
There’s an entity in the Cthullu-verse that turns everybody that looks at it crazy because of its sheer complexity, isn’t there?
Sounds kinda like my psychiatric history
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to take away. — Antoine de Saint-Exupére
+55653, -937? That is not beauty, even if it all “worked”.
I would say a few new lines are OK if they at least improve the readability of the code.
But given that AI was doing the work, I would say it is even less readable now.
Slinging random quotes at Jr. devs works best if you have one for every rebuttal:
Everything should be as simple as it can be, but not simpler. — Albert Einstein
Analysis is easy. Synthesis is hard. Me.
Are we going to repeat the same joke for each new model released…
Dead internet fact.
You require every post and content created and shared by people to be pure originality devoid of any influence from anything else?
No. I do not hate waffles because I said that I like pancakes.
Hold the phone. Do you mean to tell me, that the screen shot of a post I’m looking at is not an original funny joke created by the purported author, and is in fact an iteration of some other meme created by someone else?
What is wrong with people. Someone should call the people down at “the internet” and get all of this straightened out.
Sadly, no. Not everything on the internet is original. I know, it’s tough to hear that. I was heart broken too.
Yes, hello, I’d like to speak to the mayor of the internet. It’s about an urgent and very important matter.
Hello! I’m the Mayor Of The Entire Internet. What’s the matter, concerned citizen?
It was actually a post made by ChatGPT.
Reposts will continue until morale improves.
Yes. Also:
I for my part welcome the soapy tiddies GPT overlords.
Are these even real people or bot accounts other AI companies use to shit talk each other
“What did it cost?”
“The yearly energy consumption of a median household and $1,000”
Don’t forget the water usage
Ah yes the good ol asaert(true);
As an exercise to see what it would do, sure. But this just isn’t how one should go about this.
