I end up rewriting about 70% of the thing
totallykvothe on Hacker News
rewriting about 70% of the thing
In the thread “Don't fall into the anti-AI hype”
Got in the way: Fundamental architectural issues and subpar details required extensive rewriting.
… I've tried this consistently since GPT 3.5 came out, with every single SOTA model up to GPT 5.1 Codex Max and Opus 4.5. Every single time, I get something that works, yes, but then when I start self-reviewing the code, preparing to submit it to coworkers, I end up rewriting about 70% of the thing. So many important details are subpar about the AI solution, and many times fundamental architectural issues cripple any attempt at prompting my way out of it, even though I've been quite involved step-by-step through the whole prototyping phase. …