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andriy_kovalyesterday at 10:09 PM3 repliesview on HN

I have some coworker who says something similar, he vibe coded tons of cryptic code, which indeed solves some problem though could be way more compact and well structured. Now it is hitting complexity limitation, since llm now cant comprehend it, and human cant comprehend it by large a margin.


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vbezhenaryesterday at 10:14 PM

Just wait a month, Opus 4.8 will comprehend it for sure.

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svieiratoday at 11:33 AM

I went through one the other day which was a nest of Go code which boiled down to a 10 line shell script.

Jagerbizzleyesterday at 10:16 PM

honest recommendation: nuke and pave after analyzing (w/ AI of course) where it went horribly wrong.

it's trivial to reimplement a better solution.

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