now ask them to maintain the 250k lines, probably fine for rew more commits, but after that? Oh look, they left the company for the next ai-nonsense-startup.

The fallback is gonna be hilarious, the codebase rewrote by AI? With basically no considerations of business need and system capacity?

I can’t wait for the humiliating rollback

The code:

red flag number 1: measuring progress in lines of code

I am old enough to remember ms frontpage. It could take a 50 line html page and make it 500 lines or more without changing the external appearance. Didn’t make it better.

And how do you even explain the requirements of somethingvthat took that much code to implement to an AI. The context window is only so big.

They’re going to take your job.

🤓📚🤚🦋 Is this an empathetic message?

I wonder why everyone hates CEOs

From my experience, being “good” at vibe coding is more about being unable to detect flaws in AI generated code rather than being able to code well. Add AI to the workflow of someone who actually understands scalability and maintenance and that won’t be able to get past a couple functions before they drop the AI.

Also, assuming this kid gets weekends off, he would be writing 12k lines of code each day. I don’t think the average programmer could even review that number of lines in a day, so there’s likely no actual supervision for what the kid is feeding into the codebase.

I’d estimate within four months the project will be impenetrable, and they’ll scrap the whole thing.