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MixedCodex · 8 Feb 2026

In the end, I gave a recommendation that we shouldn't rely on this Chinese company and back out of the deal before we send them a huge deposit

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10 lines of code in a day

In the thread “I am happier writing code by hand”, replying to this comment

Helped: Identifying reliability issues and recommending to back out of the deal.

Got in the way: AI was lost on data formatting and handling poorly designed polling logic.

… I then had to do load testing to make sure it was reliable (it wasn't). In the end, I gave a recommendation that we shouldn't rely on this Chinese company and back out of the deal before we send them a huge deposit. A non-technical PM couldn't have done what I did... …