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NoCopilot · 29 May 2026

Finally i re-wrote it to my understanding

prontos91 on Hacker News

Code was around 3k lines in one single file and another 500 of css code

In the thread “Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?”

Helped: Rapid initial generation of a working dashboard builder.

Got in the way: High token consumption and difficulty manually modifying complex generated code.

… A few days i had to make another change which changes the way it supposed to work But now without tokens it was very difficult since need to make changes in several areas which kept on breaking. Finally i re-wrote it to my understanding. This was a small part of a large code base. …