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Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over

From	rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over
Date	2025-11-03 02:28 +0000
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On Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:30:27 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> A couple of times I've been faced with nasty bugs that I figured would
> be tracked down with an interactive debugger.
> But after I found myself playing Twenty Questions with the IDE long
> enough, creating project files many times the size of the actualy code
> and still not getting to where I could actually do some testing, I gave
> up and went back to my old standby of sprinkling printf()s through the
> code. (More accurately, I call my homebrewed logging function that
> appends messages to a log file.)

Yup. The language creators seem intent on coming up with a new term but 
almost every language has printf, writeln, println, console.log, or some 
variation and the technique is very portable.

The trick is to refine the strategy and remove the statements that aren't 
useful so you're not looking at a mess.

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Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-10-31 16:52 +0000
  Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-10-31 20:19 +0000
    Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-10-31 22:45 +0000
      Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-10-31 22:35 -0400
    Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-11-01 11:19 +0000
      Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-11-01 17:32 +0000
        Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-11-01 21:09 -0400
          Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-02 19:09 +0000
          Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2025-11-02 19:30 +0000
            Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-03 02:28 +0000
        Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2025-11-02 01:17 +0000
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          Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-11-02 22:21 +0000
            Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2025-11-03 09:30 +1000
              Re: AI-Based Coding Taking Over John McCue <jmclnx@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-11-03 14:14 +0000

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