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i rewrote a code base that i’ve been tinkering on for the last 2 years or so this weekend. a complete replatform, new tech stack, ui, infra, the whole nine yard

i rewrote a code base that i’ve been tinkering on for the last 2 years or so this weekend. a complete replatform, new tech stack, ui, infra, the whole nine yards. the rewrite took exactly 3 days, referenced the old code base, online documentation, github issues all without (mostly) ever leaving claude. it completely blew my mind. i wrote maybe 10 lines of code manually. it’s going to eliminate jobs.

lazystar 1y ago
> it’s going to eliminate jobs. that's the part i'm not sold on yet. it's a tool that allows you to do a year's work in a week - but every dev in every company will be able to use that tool, thus it will increase the productivity of each engineer by an equal amount. that means each company's products will get much better much faster - and it means that any company that cuts head count will be at risk of falling behind it's competitors. i could see it getting rid of some of the infosec analysts, i guess. since itll be easier to keep a codebase up to date, the folks that run a nessus scan and cut tickets asking teams to upgrade their codebase will have less work available.
- bluefirebrand 1y ago
  > it's a tool that allows you to do a year's work in a week Exaggerations like this really don't help your credibility
  - lazystar 1y ago
    the amount isn't relevant to the argument; the point is that the amount - whatever that may be - is applied equally to all companies, which means the competitive balance will stay the same. its a great build tool, but you still need builders to use the tool.
  - owebmaster 1y ago
    How many teams of 10 took a year and USD 5 millions to develop a CRUD that failed? That can be done in one week now
    - bluefirebrand 1y ago
      I'm not sure that spending $5 Million to fail every week is actually better than spending $5 million to fail once a year Brings a crazy new meaning to "fail fast" though
      - owebmaster 1y ago
        if the success rate is the same, that would be actually good

lazystar 1y ago

> it’s going to eliminate jobs. that's the part i'm not sold on yet. it's a tool that allows you to do a year's work in a week - but every dev in every company will be able to use that tool, thus it will increase the productivity of each engineer by an equal amount. that means each company's products will get much better much faster - and it means that any company that cuts head count will be at risk of falling behind it's competitors. i could see it getting rid of some of the infosec analysts, i guess. since itll be easier to keep a codebase up to date, the folks that run a nessus scan and cut tickets asking teams to upgrade their codebase will have less work available.

bluefirebrand 1y ago
> it's a tool that allows you to do a year's work in a week Exaggerations like this really don't help your credibility
- lazystar 1y ago
  the amount isn't relevant to the argument; the point is that the amount - whatever that may be - is applied equally to all companies, which means the competitive balance will stay the same. its a great build tool, but you still need builders to use the tool.
- owebmaster 1y ago
  How many teams of 10 took a year and USD 5 millions to develop a CRUD that failed? That can be done in one week now
  - bluefirebrand 1y ago
    I'm not sure that spending $5 Million to fail every week is actually better than spending $5 million to fail once a year Brings a crazy new meaning to "fail fast" though
    - owebmaster 1y ago
      if the success rate is the same, that would be actually good