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I am done with this shit

258 points · 206 comments · meander_water

  1. gonzalohm · · focus · HN ↗
    The other day I inherited a repo from someone that left the company. The first one to be almost fully vibe coded.

    It's horrible. It's over engineered in every way. It follows a completely different pattern than the other repos. It adds 10 CLI options that don't have any use (why does Claude add --threads to everything). It's impossible to follow the flow of the code. Of course, days after I inherited it, it broke so good luck to me fixing it I guess

    1. vehemenz · · focus · HN ↗
      What's to stop you from rebuilding it yourself to improve the structure? Why couldn't you vibe code it better?
      1. gonzalohm · · focus · HN ↗
        I mean, I'm going to rebuild it. But with just a light AI usage. The point I'm trying to make is that. Ok, AI may have saved time coding it the first time. But building an unmaintainable codebase is going to make you pay that time back with interests
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