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NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline π³οΈβπ") wrote:
@baldur re "superstition-drive coding", my favorite term for that for a long while has been:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo%5Fcult%5Fprogramming
Rereading the Wikipedia definition in the new context of LLMs is enlightening:
> The term cargo cult programmer may apply when anyone inexperienced with the problem at hand copies some program code from one place to another with little understanding of how it works or whether it is required.