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This is somehow even more of a shitshow than I would have predicted. Also it continues the pattern that these systems don't fuck up the way people do. One thing he hasn't annotated as much is the sheer number of different aesthetic variants on doing the same thing that this code contains. Like, you do the same kind of compression four different places, and one is compressImage, one is DoCompression, one is imgModify.compress, and one is COMPRESS_IMG. Even the most dysfunctional team would have spent time developing some kind of standard here from my (admittedly limited) experience.
My experience has been vastly different. Prior to LLMs I have seen all sorts of horrors of this sort and others writ large across many codebases. It's so awesome that LLMs offer the ability to make the same sorts of code but at a much faster speed. In times past it used to take devs years to build up the kind of tech debt that LLMs can give you in days.
Yeah realized a while ago that vibe coding is a massive technical debt creation machine.
I mean I guess "developing" in that sentence is doing a lot of work replacing "arguing fruitlessly about".
It is great, that means the system is vulnerable to hacks if you find an exploit in any of those methods, but only 1/4th of the time.
Somebody described AI agents as very enthusiastic 14 year olds, and looks like they certainly code like one.