Code is a cost. It seems everyone's forgotten.
Saying "I generated 250k lines" is like saying "I used 2500 gallons of gas". Cool, nice expense, but where did you get? Because it it's three miles, you're just burning money.
250k lines is roughly SQLite or Redis in project size. Do you have SQLite-maintaining money? Did you get as far as Redis did in outcomes?
Openclaw was mostly build by AI. It had 400K lines of code.
You didn’t answer what does you 250k lines do? How much money does it make? How many users does it have?
what if you move from reviewing the code to reviewing the spec?
That’s like asking why don’t we switch from reviewing PRs to reviewing jira tickets.
There’s probably a world where you could do that if the spec was written in a formal language with no ambiguity and there was a rigorous system for translating from spec to code sure.
Hm, that's an interesting concept. What if we were able to create an unambiguous, rigorous specification language for creating prompts so that we could get consistent and predictable output from AI? Maybe we could call it a "prompt programming language" or something
That exists, it's called code.