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A friend of mine is working for a small-ish startup (11 people) and he gets to work and sees the CTO push 10k loc changes straight to main at 3 am. Probs fine
by fnands 10mo ago
A friend of mine is working for a small-ish startup (11 people) and he gets to work and sees the CTO push 10k loc changes straight to main at 3 am.
Probs fine when you are still in the exploration phase of a startup, scary once you get to some kind of stability
- titzer 10mo agoThat's...idiotic.
- jennyholzer2 10mo ago[flagged]
- titzer 10mo agoI mean, I've vibe-coded a few useful single-file HTML tools, but checking in 10kloc at 3am into the production database...by the CTO...omg.
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- jennyholzer2 10mo ago[flagged]
- tossandthrow 10mo agoThe cto is ultimately responsible for the outcome and will be there at 4am to fix stuff.
- pjc50 10mo agoYes .. and no. Someone who does this will definitely make the staff clean up after them.
- ryandrake 10mo agoI feel like this becomes kind of unacceptable as soon as you take on your first developer employee. 10K LOC changes from the CTO is fine when it's only the CTO working on the project. Hell, for my hobby projects, I try to keep individual commits under 50-100 lines of code.
- bonesss 10mo agoTemplates and templating languages are still a thing. Source generators are a thing. Languages that support macros exist. Metaprogramming is always an option. Systems that write systems… If these AIs are so smart, why the giant LOCs? Sure, it’s cheaper today than yesterday to write out boilerplate, but programming is about eliminating boilerplate and using more powerful abstractions. It’s easy to save time doing lots of repetitive nonsense, stopping the nonsense should be the point.
- peab 10mo agoLol I worked at a startup where the CTO did this. The problem was that it was pure spaghetti code. It was so bad it kept me up at night, thinking about how to fix things. I left within 30 days
- jimbohn 10mo agoI'd go mental if I was a SWE having to mop that up later
- coffeebeqn 10mo agoI worked with a “CTO” who did that before LLMs - one of the worst jobs I have had in the last 10 years. I spent at least 50% of my time putting out fires or refactoring his garbage code