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aurareturn • yesterday at 3:14 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

I assume most of their outages is related to this insane scaling and lack of available compute.

Vibe coding doesn't automatically mean lower quality. My codebase quality and overall app experience has improved since I started using agents to code. You can leverage AI to test as well as write new code.

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CharlieDigital • yesterday at 3:23 PM

    > I assume most of their outages is related to this insane scaling and lack of available compute.
    > 
    > Vibe coding doesn't automatically mean lower quality
Scalability is a factor of smart/practical architectural decisions. Scalability doesn't happen for free and isn't emergent (the exact opposite is true) unless it is explicitly designed for. Problem is that ceding more of the decision making to the agent means that there's less intentionality in the design and likely a contributor to scaling pains.
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_fat_santa • yesterday at 3:20 PM

After the CC leak last week I took a look at their codebase and my biggest criticism is they seem to never do refactoring passes.

Personally I write something like 80-90% of my code with agents now but after they finish up, it's critical that you spin up another agent to clean up the code that the first one wrote.

Looking at their code it's clear they do not do this (or do this enough). Like the main file being something like 4000 LOC with 10 different functions all jammed in the same file. And this sort of pattern is all over the place in the code.

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RC_ITR • yesterday at 3:20 PM

Isn't the whole selling point of AI agents that you now can do things like scale 3x without scaling your team accordingly?

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samlinnfer • yesterday at 3:18 PM

Well if we use Claude Code's code quality as a benchmark ...