Oh it's Jacob - I used to work w/ him on his acquired startup, Pluto. He was very AI-pilled; I'm not surprised at the results. I remember wading through the AI-generated Python he had written. I think Pluto had something like 500k or 700k lines after 18mo. Everything was duplicated; there was no reuse of anything. Dozens of features, which mostly worked, not all did.

As a product that I would regularly use, Pluto missed the mark for me. As a SWE in 2023, I couldn't meet Jacob's mentality. Today, it's how a lot of us ship software.

I didn't love the product but I have to respect the process: he was able to sell his company. For some, what he did is success.