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The experience that made me hate programming, but that's all on me (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] Redacted 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (9 children)

Ah I see ChatGPT is being as accurate as ever making up a created_at field completely unprompted. They've already found the correct SQL:

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

Although I would question the sense in calling a date field "date".

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (5 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 3 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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