minus-squareColdus12@reddthat.comtoProgrammer Humor@lemmy.ml•Child labour with 10 years of experience, 'AI-native' accepting 250k lines of Cursor codelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·edit-27 days agoIn what world? 1k lines is a lot… Even a few hundred can take hours if everything is unknown, code is legacy, and naming is bad. Like if there is a line like this memcpy(ptr, src, 4 * 6 * sizeof(real)); What’s that 4? What’s that 6? Is real a float? A double?? What are we copying, where, why??? This is a line I saw recently. 1k code is huge even if readable. linkfedilink
In what world? 1k lines is a lot… Even a few hundred can take hours if everything is unknown, code is legacy, and naming is bad.
Like if there is a line like this
memcpy(ptr, src, 4 * 6 * sizeof(real));
What’s that 4?
What’s that 6?
Is real a float? A double?? What are we copying, where, why???
This is a line I saw recently. 1k code is huge even if readable.