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q3ktoday at 9:19 AM5 repliesview on HN

The code looks, at a glance, as bad as you expect.


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tokioyoyotoday at 10:11 AM

It really doesn’t matter anymore. I’m saying this as a person who used to care about it. It does what it’s generally supposed to do, it has users. Two things that matter at this day and age.

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linesofcodetoday at 11:15 AM

Code quality no longer carries the same weight as it did pre LLMs. It used to matter becuase humans were the ones reading/writing it so you had to optimize for readability and maintainability. But these days what matters is the AI can work with it and you can reliably test it. Obviously you don’t want code quality to go totally down the drain, but there is a fine balance.

Optimize for consistency and a well thought out architecture, but let the gnarly looking function remain a gnarly function until it breaks and has to be refactored. Treat the functions as black boxes.

Personally the only time I open my IDE to look at code, it’s because I’m looking at something mission critical or very nuanced. For the remainder I trust my agent to deliver acceptable results.

breppptoday at 10:11 AM

Honestly when using it, it feels vibe coded to the bone, together with the matching weird UI footgun quirks

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loevborgtoday at 9:23 AM

Can you give an example? Looks fairly decent to me

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PierceJoytoday at 9:58 AM

Nothing a couple /simplify's can't take care of.