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YesChatGPT · 21 Aug 2025

I didn’t write a single line of any of it by hand and from reviewing it, it didn’t make any choices that I wouldn’t make

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1000 lines of Node CDK code

In the thread “Vibe coding creates a bus factor of zero”, replying to this comment

Helped: Providing inbound JSON and table statements for SQL generation.

… But I hardly ever write more than 200-300 lines at a time. I can tell you that my latest project has around 1000 lines of Node CDK code between multiple apps ( https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/ ) and around 1000 lines of Python code and I didn’t write a single line of any of it by hand and from reviewing it, it didn’t make any choices that I wouldn’t make and I found some of the techniques it used for the CDK code were things I wouldn’t have thought about. The SQL code it generated for one of the functions was based on my just giving it the inbound JSON and the create table statements and it didn’t idiomatic MySQL, with parameters (ie no sql injection risk) and no unsafe code. …