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I frequently have to throw away their massively verbose and ridiculously complex code and engage my withering brain to come up with the correct solution that is 80% less code
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80% less code
In the thread “The cult of vibe coding is dogfooding run amok”, replying to this comment
Got in the way: AI generated massively verbose and ridiculously complex code that had to be thrown away.
… I can literally see my teams codebase becoming an unmaintainable nightmare in front of my eyes each day. I use copilot and Claude code and I frequently have to throw away their massively verbose and ridiculously complex code and engage my withering brain to come up with the correct solution that is 80% less code. I probably get to the solution in the same time when all is said and done. …