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freakynittoday at 4:03 AM0 repliesview on HN

This is one more marketing BS before their IPO.

These things work, but the code they write is extremely clever.. that means, it's unmaintainable code. Good for small projects or one-off tasks, large-scale projects however, are a different game altogether.

Large-scale projects are 95%+ maintenance. Cleverly written code makes that maintenance nightmare, and extremely fragile.

I use them for localized tasks... very very specific, localized inputs, with exactly what should be done and what the contracts the new code will be consuming and exposing.

For open-ended tasks, they write working code that is unmaintainable.