alt Hacker News> They care that the product works
This reminds me of Anthropic's post where they say they ship 8x as much code as they used to.
And I stopped to consider how many times I've used an app and thought, "You know what this needs? More code!"
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SanjayMehta • today at 4:56 AM
I joined a team where the previous boss measured productivity by LOC on a weekly basis in public.
This team eschewed libraries and shared code. Copy/paste everywhere.
Every defect had to fixed in 100+ mini-applications. It was a telecom MMI product.
trumpdong • today at 10:22 AM
Is this why Claude Code uses React as a game engine to run a TUI?
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Unsurprising, agents' solution to everything is writing more code. They'll happily reinvent the universe (a really crappy one).
Bug? More code. Unexpected behavior - read the docs? Couldn't find anything. Let's try another 1000 lines of workarounds. Still doesn't work? Write another 1000 lines to monkey-patch behavior. It sort of works now.
The actual solution is removing those 2000 lines and passing the correct argument on line 25 which is clearly documented. Most humans would never do that because we're too lazy but it's so easy to generate slop at an exponential rate and blow up the LOC metrics.