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I deleted 75,000 of 140,000 lines of code and I honestly feel like the 3 months I went hard into agentic coding I wasted
jwpapi on Hacker News
deleted 75,000 of 140,000 lines of code
In the thread “I'm going back to writing code by hand”
Got in the way: Codebase became spaghetti, exploration slowed, failure rate increased, lost mental model.
… You start working…, and you realize what was going on I deleted 75,000 of 140,000 lines of code and I honestly feel like the 3 months I went hard into agentic coding I wasted and I failed my users by building useless features increasing bugs, losing the mental model of my code and not finding the problems I didn’t know about the kind of hard decisions you only see when you in the code, the stuff that wanders in your mind for days