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The experience that made me hate programming, but that's all on me (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by MrOzwaldMan@lemmy.ml to c/programming@programming.dev
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Title before edit: I hate programming, why did i choose this field

TL;DR: Stupid mistake, made by hours waste.

Basically, I was extracting date from the SQL db, and it was not displaying. I tried everything, heck I even went to chatgpt, and copilot. Two and half hours of trying every single thing under the sun, you know what was the issue?

SELECT task, status, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id

I FUCKING FORGOT TO ADD 'date' TO THE DAMN QUERY. TWO AND HALF HOURS. I was like, "Ain't no way." as I scrolled up to the query and there it was, a slap in the face, and you know what was the fix?

SELECT task, status, date, id FROM mainWorkSpace WHERE user_id = @user_id

Moral of the story, don't become a programmer, become a professional cat herder instead.

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It pointed out the exact problem immediately and would have saved hours of effort.

But yeah, it didn't know the name of the column and guessed at what it would be.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It made an incorrect inference, imagine how wrong it is on more complex questions.

[–] Strider@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Of course. I would not recommend using it.

More like giving hints or a rough frame to work with.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Umn. No. It told you it was making that inference since it didn't know the table schema.

For example, if you have a column named “created_at” or “date” in your mainWorkSpace table, you can add it to your SELECT statement

Otherwise it was exactly right about the problem.

[–] Redacted@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

It's partially right but led OP down the wrong lines of thinking because it interpreted the prompt as a date field being missing rather than the field named date being missing.

Tbh I don't blame it too much here as there is kind of a base level of understanding requred to use it successfully.

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

No. In what way is "If you have a column named foo add it to your query" wrong?