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I think you're all fucking crazy. Or maybe I am? I can literally see my teams codebase becoming an unmaintainable nightmare in front of my eyes each day. I us

I think you're all fucking crazy. Or maybe I am? I can literally see my teams codebase becoming an unmaintainable nightmare in front of my eyes each day. I use copilot and Claude code and I frequently have to throw away their massively verbose and ridiculously complex code and engage my withering brain to come up with the correct solution that is 80% less code. I probably get to the solution in the same time when all is said and done. Honestly what is going on. What are we doing here?

gitaarik 7mo ago
Sounds very similar to my experience with colleagues before AI. It just goes even faster now.
- i_love_retros 7mo ago
  But before AI it was possible to keep things in check because pull requests were manageable in both size and frequency. Now we have people passing figma screen shots to copilot and Claude and putting up single shot pull requests that have what used to be 5 jira stories all in one. It's impossible to keep any semblance of consistency and correctness in the codebase. Its also exhausting for the people that actually care.
  - gitaarik 7mo ago
    The Pull Requests were maybe manageable, but the backlog wasn't ;). AI does help with that. And the tools that require more stability you can still spend more time on and review the code.
    - i_love_retros 7mo ago
      I'm guessing you're a manager and don't write much code or take interest in software quality
bakugo 7mo ago
> What are we doing here? Trying to get rich quick. That's all this really is. When your goal is to just make as much money as possible in the shortest amount of time, code quality doesn't matter because not only will your product not be relevant long enough for maintainability to become a problem, your users likely aren't using it because it's good anyway, they're using it because of the marketing and hype around it. Claude Code is the Bored Ape Yacht Club of the current era. Burn money on marketing, build hype, inflate the valuation, then run with the bag. After they go public and the reality that current prices aren't even remotely profitable sets in, the entire scheme will collapse, and in a few years we'll all be looking back at this whole thing and laughing about how crazy people went over it, while going crazy for whatever the newest techbro hype scheme is.
- i_love_retros 7mo ago
  AI psychosis is real. My whole team has it

gitaarik 7mo ago

Sounds very similar to my experience with colleagues before AI. It just goes even faster now.

i_love_retros 7mo ago
But before AI it was possible to keep things in check because pull requests were manageable in both size and frequency. Now we have people passing figma screen shots to copilot and Claude and putting up single shot pull requests that have what used to be 5 jira stories all in one. It's impossible to keep any semblance of consistency and correctness in the codebase. Its also exhausting for the people that actually care.
- gitaarik 7mo ago
  The Pull Requests were maybe manageable, but the backlog wasn't ;). AI does help with that. And the tools that require more stability you can still spend more time on and review the code.
  - i_love_retros 7mo ago
    I'm guessing you're a manager and don't write much code or take interest in software quality

bakugo 7mo ago

> What are we doing here? Trying to get rich quick. That's all this really is. When your goal is to just make as much money as possible in the shortest amount of time, code quality doesn't matter because not only will your product not be relevant long enough for maintainability to become a problem, your users likely aren't using it because it's good anyway, they're using it because of the marketing and hype around it. Claude Code is the Bored Ape Yacht Club of the current era. Burn money on marketing, build hype, inflate the valuation, then run with the bag. After they go public and the reality that current prices aren't even remotely profitable sets in, the entire scheme will collapse, and in a few years we'll all be looking back at this whole thing and laughing about how crazy people went over it, while going crazy for whatever the newest techbro hype scheme is.

i_love_retros 7mo ago
AI psychosis is real. My whole team has it