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this is the business model bet. the codebase is a big ball of mud that only a superhuman ai can comprehend, therefore everyone must use superhuman ai make changes in the codebase. the selling point is iteration speed, especially early iteration speed

cf. SV conventional wisdom: he who ships first wins the market

in fairness, there is real value in iteration speed. i'm not holding my breath on human comprehensible corporate code bases moving forward. a slew of critical foundational projects, mostly run by the big names, may still care about what used to be called "good engineering practices".



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