People say that a mostly-vibed project will collapse under its own weight. I personally doubt it, but I will be amused if the first big one falls this way is Claude Code itself.
People say that a mostly-vibed project will collapse under its own weight. I personally doubt it, but I will be amused if the first big one falls this way is Claude Code itself.
Unfortunately it will all probably sort of work, But best not to dwell too much on how the sausage is made, it is pretty unpleasant. There will be some interesting job titles in the future however.
I just read Vernor Vinge's "A deepness in the sky" And the way he modeled their compute systems felt depressingly believable, they have thousand of years of libraries floating around, sort of loosely tacked together. and specialist programmer-archaeologists are the ones who who dig deep and try to understand the system.
> Unfortunately it will all probably sort of work, But best not to dwell too much on how the sausage is made, it is pretty unpleasant.
Interestingly, most long-running codebases are like that, no?
It's just that producing (incl. reviewing/testing and all those, even AI-assisted) that amount of code in a significantly shorter period of time highlights this discrepancy much more to us.
Boiling frog
I've seen ancient codebases that you need to be blessed by a priest to even touch but they keep chugging away and having new features added. I wouldn't hold my breath for a collapse, just a quagmire that we continually have to wade through to get anything done.
Isn't it also true that the deeper and thicker the quagmire, the more tokens one will have to use to wade through it?
This seems like a path to eventual LLM lock-in once the codebase gets messy enough. These things could end up being like 0% interest credit cards for technical debt. I guess it all depends on how the token usage scales over time. My guess is it will be steeper than linear.
Considering that Claude Code stalls out on the installation process for me to the point where I never had a chance to use it, we're already there.