Post by @levork@graphics.social

2026-07-27 00:18 UTC

I think that's plenty unhinged ranting for now. I'm sure someone years from now will point out that I wrote the most boring code, but man, did I write long commit logs, sometimes full of snark. Maybe that's the only artistic footprint I'll leave behind on a decades old code base. I hope at least it's an immediately recognizable footprint. (11/10, oops)

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@levork@graphics.social 2026-07-27 00:40

PS I am a hypocrite who no longer lives in a Craftsman and now lives in a house with very efficient windows, AC, and white walls

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@darkling@mstdn.social 2026-07-27 14:16

@levork@graphics.social The idiosyncrasy that I always smile at is when someone has an accent. You're looking at, say, some Python, and you just *know* that the author started out writing Java (or C, or perl).

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@krig@goto.liten.app 2026-07-27 09:09

@levork@graphics.social I also look at a lot of AI-generated code and to me it does have a distinct personality (as in I recognize the LLM “style”) but it’s a very annoying one. Comments that spend whole paragraphs saying nothing or referring to changes that have been discarded, “does X instead of Y to avoid Z”, using outdated language constructs, an extreme love of catching and discarding exceptions whenever possible…

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