> I spent a week or so and like a billion+ tokens trying to refactor and save it. It just wasn't worth it.

this is exactly what happened to github.com/humanlayer/humanlayer - it was overslopped and we reset from scratch to build it right - spent 2 weeks in VS CODE - not even cursor, plumbing the core patterns from scratch. codebase is part of the prompt, yada yada

> I wish people would be pragmatic about this

that might be the tl;dr for the whole post haha