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We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

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Re: We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

#11
lol looks like they are using a similar methodology to how we use Claude in house.

Honestly, the code we write with AI is cleaner, better documented, better factored, more maintainable, and less bugs than back in old days before code assistant agents. I think people must be just yoloing it, because it seems a lot like a holding it wrong type problem.

Documentation driven development is your friend.

Re: We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

#12
“We use Claude Code too”

I understand that it’s probably impossible to sell non-AI-assisted solutions to AI-pilled companies (even when their headaches are AI-induced), but my gut reaction to “take an AI-inflated codebase and apply AI deflation to it” is something like “that’s akin to applying two rounds of lossy transcoding; the errors don’t cancel out, they cross-multiply”.

Re: We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

#13

"Two weeks of warranty" jumped out at me. That's like "you have two weeks to find the thing we broke, or else we aren't responsible for it." In my experience, a good bug can hide for months more than two weeks! My codebases are definitely not in the target demographic for this service, though, and maybe if I were in the target group (bunch of LLM slop, trying to dig out of the hole, presumably no shipping product or…

If the client has an extensive suite of automated tests assessing if the software is meeting its requirements, it should be possible for them to flush out most regressions within minutes or hours, not weeks.

If the client hasn't invested in setting that up, the resulting situation is the clients' responsibility.

Re: We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

#15
post #12

“We use Claude Code too” I understand that it’s probably impossible to sell non-AI-assisted solutions to AI-pilled companies (even when their headaches are AI-induced), but my gut reaction to “take an AI-inflated codebase and apply AI deflation to it” is something like “that’s akin to applying two rounds of lossy transcoding; the errors don’t cancel out, they cross-multiply”.

NGL I'd argue there's a certain appeal to "use AI to prototype a feature as fast as possible and focus your engineer hours on building a comprehensive testing and fuzzing plan" followed by a "remove and review everything that can be cut without breaking the tests" cleanup pass.

Re: We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

#17
post #11

lol looks like they are using a similar methodology to how we use Claude in house. Honestly, the code we write with AI is cleaner, better documented, better factored, more maintainable, and less bugs than back in old days before code assistant agents. I think people must be just yoloing it, because it seems a lot like a holding it wrong type problem. Documentation driven development is your friend.

Yeah, that's how I've been using it.

Problem is that you can't do a FOMO-fueled hype IPO that gets a trillion dollars if your argument is "this is a tool that can improve the quality of work your employees output".

It needs to be a "we are building a doomsday weapon here, give me money" argument. Even if it is false. Especially if it is false.

Re: We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code

#18

100% supportive of this type of product but I also find the ai-slop text to be a bit ironic.

Yes, I think selling "AI cleanup" branding on "we use AI to make smarter AI changes to your codebase" a little.. disingenuous.

But the true cost of minds, not AI assisted minds, is probably higher. They may have found a pricepoint which scales.

Imagine a future, where people get jobs to .. "write code" (in hand quotes) based on specifications "written" by machines..

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