[why_at]

This part from the first try made me laugh:

      if random.random() < 0.01:

          logging.warning("This feels wrong. Aborting just in case.")

          return None

[x187463]

I actually laughed when I read that. This one got me, too. The casual validation of its paranoia gives me Marvin the Paranoid Android vibes.

  try:
      result = a / b
      if math.isnan(result):
          raise ArithmeticError("Result is NaN. I knew this would happen.")

[bspammer]

I think that’s the funniest joke I’ve ever seen an LLM make. Which probably means it’s copied from somewhere.

[m463]

"Why is a laser beam like goldfish? Because neither one can whistle." - Mike, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

[keeda]

If you're an extensive user of ChatGPT, or if you can give it some material about yourself like say, a resume or a LinkedIn profile, ask it to roast you. It will be very specific to the content you give it. Be warned, it can be brutal.

[ashdksnndck]

It would not be shocking if LLMs are legitimately better at making jokes about tasks they are extensively trained on.

[tomjakubowski]

Years and years ago, the MongoDB Java driver had something like this to skip logging sometimes in one of its error handling routines.

   } catch (Exception e) {
                if (!((_ok) ? true : (Math.random() > 0.1))) {
                    return res;
                }

                final StringBuilder logError = (new StringBuilder("Server seen down: ")).append(_addr);

                /* edited for brevity: log the error */
 

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-java-driver/blob/1d2e6faa80...

[nonameiguess]

One of my earlier jobs a decade ago involved doing pipeline development and Jenkins administration for the on-site developer lab on one of the NRO projects, and I inserted a random build failure code snippet to test that pipelines could recover from builds that failed for unpredictable reasons, like a network error rather than anything actually wrong with the build. I had to do this on the real system because we didn't have funds for a staging environment for the dev environment, and naturally I forgot to get rid of it when I was done. So builds randomly failed for years after that before I remembered and fixed it.

[chasd00]

If we’re talking about funny error msgs, a buddy of mine got this yesterday in salesforce. It’s not _that_ funny but pretty funny for Salesforce.

System.DmlException: Insert failed. First exception on row 0; first error: UNKNOWN_EXCEPTION, Something is very wrong: []