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I've found that engineers on a large team do read every line, mainly due to the fact that the skill levels run the gamut from intern to lead, and only 1 or 2 pe
by mekael 2mo ago
I've found that engineers on a large team do read every line, mainly due to the fact that the skill levels run the gamut from intern to lead, and only 1 or 2 people out of 12 might have knowledge of the application being modified.
It's actually getting worse due to "AI code bloat", for example I have 16k lines of code to review across 3 apps by the end of this week. Normally it would be a quarter of that, but what Claude produces is extremely verbose in some places and anemic in others, and I can't tell at a glance what's right and what looks right with that much ground to cover.
- t-writescode 2mo agoGoodness, how is that being tolerated? I guess it can’t be stopped without a lot of political capital; but 16k lines of code is HUGE, and I cannot imagine that it’s actually 16k lines of value - I’ve written whole new subsystems of a product in fewer lines. Are these all written in an exceptionally verbose language like Go or Java? Are they VERY well documented? Are they doing things they shouldn’t be doing???
- champagnepapi 2mo agoBrother at my startup one person shipped 75k lines in two weeks. We’re living in the golden age of slop