alt Hacker News> $168k
Billions of dollars of annual revenue go through Claude Code, and the people who work on it must be a lot of millions in headcount.
The time matters a fair bit, it's probably time someone can't spend breaking things in the name of new features, but if rewriting the stack had even a tiny impact on retention or driving higher usage, it would pay back that $168k.
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NDizzle • last Sunday at 6:11 PM
The company I work for is about 15mm into what is effectively a rewrite. Just a lone data point…
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pdimitar • last Sunday at 6:01 PM
Yep, same thought. And it seems Anthropic agrees.
If only paying the $168k was some sort of a guarantee. Vibing doesn't give you that.
You might get more maintainable code for $168k by hiring humans, but if its something bespoke it isn't going to get you far (or far quickly).
Vibing is straight out gambling right now, the thing is, I don't know who the house is any more.