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1. ricardobeat · 1789764725 · focus · HN ↗

   These optimizations are impressive, but it gets me thinking: at what point does a company become a collection of impenetrable siloes, where nothing really does what you expect? Maybe know with AI this is less of an issue as exploring a codebase is also much faster.

   1. mitxela · 1789773962 · focus · HN ↗

      Actually, AI creates spaghetti faster than any human ever could before.

      1. GroksBarnacles · 1789784358 · focus · HN ↗

         Do you feel like this is a very meaningful comment? Will someone go "mm yes, actually it's spaghetti, I didn't think of that.."

         Are you trying to succinctly say AL'S spaghetti code outweighs the benefits of what it produces quickly?

         If you're not saying it outweighs it, what are you saying?

      2. adrianN · 1789785777 · focus · HN ↗

         The steelman argumentation is probably that spaghetti doesn't matter to LLMs and no humans will read that code anyway.
      3. anigbrowl · 1789788249 · focus · HN ↗

         I mean you can just pause and refactor regularly. I tend to use every ~4th session as an opportunity to refactor, adjust interfaces, break overly large modules into smaller ones and suchlike.

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