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You are using Astra and your codebase is a 'stupid mess'? Do you think the majority of developers agree with you? If that was the case wouldn't there be much
by BenzeneDream 22d ago
You are using Astra and your codebase is a 'stupid mess'?
Do you think the majority of developers agree with you? If that was the case wouldn't there be much less disruption of the SWE industry?
I can't remember the last time I even opened VSCode to even check something let alone to fix it.
- jwpapi 22d agoI don’t know that’s why I’m happy to discuss. When I have a clean codebase it’s super powerful and faster than I am. Then I start to use it more, more sessions and longer tasks less checking in between. It kind of works but later I’m in a deadlock where every change introduces new bugs or takes ages. This might be for a lot of reasons for example me going to fast, me losing mental model, me explaining it wrongly. However when I then start checking the code it’s all spaghetti like frankly the spaghetti Astra produces I’ve never seen before. Processes that should be simple stretch over 11 files with weird wrappers and abstractions and I need a whole day to entangle it. These are ai assisted user workflows that Im working on in this case. I just have the feeling no matter what AI just always expands it. And expansions hinders agility and sometimes you need that.