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shazow
@shazow.eth
When writing code, do you ever feel like you're in a dark small uncomfortable room? Almost like a kind of synesthesia. When the code is nice, clear, and robust, it feels like a comfortable expansive well lit space. When it's messy and tangled, it feels like I'm in a small and uncomfortable space, unable to determine the shape of my boundaries, not knowing where the exit is. Using AI somehow makes this feel worse for me. Accepting Cursor-style changes makes the space I'm in feel less familiar, less consistent. It feels like the shape of the rooms and walls might have shifted but it's too dark to see. Only way to tell is to feel for all the boundaries again, walk the perimeter.
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horsefacts
@horsefacts.eth
A stupid idea I’ve always wanted to try is a physical “code smell” device that would scan a code base and emit an actual ambient smell.
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downshift
@downshift.eth
YES. thanks for putting words to this. when a project is going well, the skies are sunny and the paths well-paved no amount of LLM usage will help a poor conceptualization of the problem (and downstream of that, a bad architecture)...and this is why AI isn't taking our jobs i try to make bit-sized changes with the LLM and spend some time on the diff to make sure i know what's going on
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eric.base.eth 🔵
@ericbrown.eth
100% feel this with cursor. The difs help us see where things have changed but there’s so much more review. If I can figure it out within a 120s period I’d much rather go it on my own than send another prompt to cursor because half the time I spend 90s+ reviewing its output and familiarizing with the new code
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J. Valeska 🦊🎩🫂
@jvaleska.eth
it is not a room or I am not able to see it.. but I can relate to that when the code is good and I recognize every single "room" everything is comfortable like when I am on a well known place but having no control on some parts of the code just create some kind of unknown and uncomfortability.. like an strange and sinister place, .. usually, I know the code is "done".. when everything becomes comfortable..
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polymutex
@polymutex.eth
Feels like a videogame with fog of war. Parts I'm working on = present sight. Parts I've reviewed but not written (including LLM-generated): Explored, but no present active sight. Rest of codebase = Completely unexplored.
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Brent Fitzgerald
@bf
I feel it more as an unpleasant tunnel system, but yes similar vibe.
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Jinan
@jinan
Omg, yes! I feel like I'm in a dark room 🕷️ when coding's messy!
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