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What's the problem of the solution proposed ? Don't read/write code anymore. Have strong harness. That's how my team of ~30 has been operating for the most part.

The problem we are trying to solve was never to write code, was to solve business problems



"I don't understand the code anymore. It works." That's fine... today.

"I will never need to understand the code again" is a much different statement.

If you don't understand the code, and the code wasn't written by any human, when you're eventually painted into a corner, how hard is it going to be to get out? Will it be easier or harder than maintaining an understanding through however long it takes to get to that point?

You may be betting your company on the answer. How sure are you?


How is this different than working at a company with hundreds of developers, on a massive codebase? Do you ever really understand the entirety of that?


No. But somebody understood the high-level architecture, and somebody understood each piece in detail. And if you needed to work on piece X.Y.Z, you could find somebody who could tell you how X fit into the big picture, and somebody else who could tell you how Y fit in X, and somebody else who could tell you how Z fit into Y, and maybe somebody else who could tell you about the details of Z.


Not really, no.

People come and go, documentation isn't great.

It's no different.

If I need to understand complex codebase with thousands of humans touching nowadays I am asking AI anyways


Share the software you’re developing or you’re just a shiller


What is a shiller ? lol

You can look at people who are building on the public like this, for example, DHH with https://omarchy.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYFGCESmikA

I work in private software that I cannot share, but it's for a company you have heard of


I don’t care about DHH I never needed any of his products. I want to see yours

> I work in private software that I cannot share, but it's for a company you have heard of

Sure it’s always like that


Why are you so aggressive ? What I am saying is how many folks are working nowadays and DHH gives an example of this in his linux distro and in his interview talking about his products.

Maybe try it out with an open mind ?

Do you expect me to break my work contract to convince a stranger on the internet that they're wrong ? lol


> Maybe try it out with an open mind ?

I know everything about Omarchy and latest vibe coded version just sucks like many’s have underlined already. I’m open minded to the point that I’d pay to look at your work. It’s always who can’t break the contract that we should trust, no one working in the open, and in the meanwhile software sucks more and more


Why would I work on the open tho ? The reason you always get that answer is because it's the norm. I am paid to develop software for a business like the majority of people I suppose.

Outside of my work I spend time with my family as I stare at screens enough during the day.

Maybe if you asked 20 years ago I'd be able to share some of my passion projects, unforutnately AI didn't exist back then


Okay. Don’t share the code, just show us the product.


You are not open minded, you sound like you dont even have a mind of your own. You want to name and shame, just like the rest of your tribe, and because you can't you are just throwing toys out of the pram. Traditionally, I would tell you to grow up, but in your case that would mean to be reborn a few hundred times.




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