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Code Is Debt

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118 points tornikeo | 1 comments | 31 Aug 25 17:58 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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furyofantares ◴[31 Aug 25 20:16 UTC] No.45086672[source]▶
The worst case with AI-generated code is worse than this. Instead of a company, I'll talk about smaller personal projects.

You can make a very real decision right now - spend a lot of time making 10,000 lines of good code that you know well, or spend VERY LITTLE time (maybe 1-2% as long) making 20,000 lines of bad code that does the same thing and that you don't know well at all.

Personally I'm continuing to find the middle ground, because if you want to continue to build past that, I think you've actually lost that time in the first case.

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1. dimitri-vs ◴[31 Aug 25 21:58 UTC] No.45087479[source]▶
Every time I overreached with trusting AI to correctly implement large parts of code I've paid the price in lost productivity later. I imagine with fully vibecoded apps the skill you need most is "you know what maybe I didn't need that feature after all" because I can't imagine how frustrating it would be debugging spaghetti code where you have no idea what the hell it does.