I remember searching stack overflow for a oddly specific issue and found a post about it with an answer. The person who asked the question was me 6 years ago.
That’s why I always answer my own questions on stackoverflow, if I find the answer first.
The person who asked the question was me 6 years ago.
I have a numbered account on S-O because I couldn't be arsed to make an account. Almost every month I'll try to upvote a response and find out it's my own. I don't remember writing the response and I only vaguely remember seeing the issue it's solving.
I'm convinced future-me is going back in time and writing these but - so far - I never come to my own dinner invite for myself; and knowing I don't, I know I shouldn't.
You're way ahead of yourself that guy doesn't stand a chance.
I had the same experience, however, I was the one who answered it. Completely forgot about it until then as well
Better than spending a day writing the script, only to discover that you'd already written a better one as soon as you're done.
First day at Antimemetics and I'm already wasting my own time.
That's almost as bad as spending time upgrading a script only to find out you already updated it and forgot you gave it a stupid name.
Thank the gods for content searching vs file name searching. Only way I can find stuff some day.
There’s no such thing as a hard-coded script if you have write access.
It's parameterized in detail
Spend 5x as long as the original task generalizing it,and it doesn't work 🙃
function x is now deprecated.
It’s depending on a package that’s now unsupported and not in the official repo
This is a perfect use case for ai.
I don't want an AI shitting up my nice, clean, best-practice following bash.
EDIT: Sorry for this comment. I really need to deal with my anger towards AI. The sentiment expressed is what I think, but I'm not happy with the aggressive and dismissive way I communicated.
It's hard to notice AI shitting up your code when you're terrible at coding in the first place and think suggesting AI is a perfectly good choice.
All you do is give it the existing code and say ‘unhardcode these values’. People are unreasonably fearful of new tools.
If I could give your edit an upvote separately from the main post, I would - congrats on the emotional maturity! /gen
And then you realize the ai was trained on countless rm -rf / troll posts.
