2011-09-08

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2011-09-08

Title text: 2011-09-08

Votey

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We programmed a program program new programs.

The machine did the coding, but we still spot- checked it and fixed issues

Ha. Half this program is just gibberish/whole sections do nothing

Over time we noticed a strange phenomenon

It's weird. The smarter we make the program, the larger the percentage of its code is gibberish we call it "uunk code."

The junk code became so ubiquitous, we hadto spend most of our time just cleaning it up.

Did you have a sec to check the functional parts?

No. Here's hoping it works

Not only did it work, it workeo better. Then it dawned onus

Oh my god the robots are told to make the highest quality code. So... they routed around humans

The junk code

Is busywork to keep us from mucking around in the

Functional

Part

We decided to hide the truth.

We can't tell the programmers it'd destroy their psyches if they found out human programming is just... human day care

Humans haven't programmed anything in decades. All the languages and ideas and jargon are just toys in the robots sandbox the real programming happens at a lower level, but none of the programmers know it

Weird. This subroutine works now, but swear I didn't change a thing

Nowadays, we're just part of the junk code don't believe me? Go ahead- compare programmer speak to gibberish- generating spambots. Can you tell the difference?

I use pylibmc to talk to memcached from django.

Pfft! Ruby, man ruby!

Votey Transcript

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The comic is a lie.

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