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0 pointstheshrike792y ago0 comments

This is highly repetitive code where the options are pretty much either me copy-pasting a piece of code and changing a bit here and there or having an AI do it.

The latter won't make stupid small mistakes, I will (and have)

And I'm checking like 10 lines at a time, related to code in the context I've got in my head.

I need to review 100x bigger PRs done by humans of varying skill regularly - related to other parts of the project I'm not intimately familiar.

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pdimitar2y ago

Okay, but isn't your own code generator a better option in this case? You know, a for loop with some parameters that spits out code?

theshrike79OP2y ago

How can a "for loop" generate me 10 API endpoints in C# that call business logic functions with the parameters received?

pdimitar2y ago

You tell me. You are the one who said that code was repetitive to generate. :)

So it turns out, not so repetitive after all then?

I remember devising my own mini DSL when I had to produce 250+ such endpoints and validators. Three days spent on that, then ran the command and I had working code 30 seconds later. Felt like a god.

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pdimitar2y ago

Okay, but isn't your own code generator a better option in this case? You know, a for loop with some parameters that spits out code?

theshrike79OP2y ago

How can a "for loop" generate me 10 API endpoints in C# that call business logic functions with the parameters received?

pdimitar2y ago

You tell me. You are the one who said that code was repetitive to generate. :)

So it turns out, not so repetitive after all then?

I remember devising my own mini DSL when I had to produce 250+ such endpoints and validators. Three days spent on that, then ran the command and I had working code 30 seconds later. Felt like a god.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse