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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

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Post by jayd16 »

thraway3837 wrote: post #39

We replaced a 120,000 USD/year low-code/no-code platform that was running a lot of workflows. And we have another platform that is also similar that we are on track to replace by EOY. Both have been replaced by "vibe" coding. It works well. Everyone's happy. People are having fun with it. We get feature requests, improvements, ideas, feedback. JIRA tickets get created, and we ask AI to reference that ticket, code to…

So wait are you saying you replaced an online tool with a local vibe coded app?

Is it a web app with vibe ops?

What's running all of the workflows now? Are you vibe provisioning new cloud instances? Or does everything run on local machines now?

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

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Post by dgacmu »

guluarte wrote: post #30

I don't think one week is enough to learn the complex business rules that some software needs to follow.

I wonder if this is part of what's clever about pitching their consultancy as slop cleanup -- nobody's likely to engage them to work on a pile of logic that's been evolving over a decade with weird load bearing corner cases. The "I just vibe coded a massive tangle" situations are more likely to be newer.

At least, one could hypothesize. Perhaps incorrectly. :)

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

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Post by capiki »

zahlman wrote: post #14
tensegrist wrote: post #5

> Then we cut: the fourteen date formatters become one, something's off here

Seems fine to me. > Then we [perform the act of] cut[ting]: [thereby,] the fourteen date formatters become (i.e. are replaced with) one,

It's the AI-generated writing that seems off (I'm assuming that's what OP meant)

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

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Post by 14 »

thraway3837 wrote: post #39

We replaced a 120,000 USD/year low-code/no-code platform that was running a lot of workflows. And we have another platform that is also similar that we are on track to replace by EOY. Both have been replaced by "vibe" coding. It works well. Everyone's happy. People are having fun with it. We get feature requests, improvements, ideas, feedback. JIRA tickets get created, and we ask AI to reference that ticket, code to…

I have always felt that AI will be much like how we all now have a calculator in our pockets (despite our math teachers telling us that would never happen lol). For math yes one could sit and do long division and multiplication and so on but having a calculator as a tool obviously makes things so much faster. But you still need to have the knowledge of how math works like the order of operations for it to be correct in the end.

I picture AI coding being the same. Ya someone with no coding knowledge can probably vibe code a small project and have it work. But more complex projects I picture AI like the calculator speeding up the work but in the end one must still understand programing and be able to ensure that the code is correct for the goal.

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

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

llm_nerd wrote: post #40
martin1975 wrote: post #35

I guess it was only a matter of time before this niche of business developed. AI is an imprecise "programming" language, full of ambiguity (English) trying to produce precise relationships between different concepts. It certainly works great on small scale, building block type of things, but the more a project grows in complexity, components, interfacing with other heterogenous systems in other languages or APIs, und…

> I guess it was only a matter of time before this niche of business developed. This is a fun webpage, and it feeds a certain bias, but there really isn't a "niche" beyond getting people to upvote it for the lulz. I would be extremely surprised if they find a single paying customer. And to be fair, lots of grifters have done the fake it till you make it act on HN, so someone saying "Oh I'm totally going to give them…

> And to be fair, lots of grifters have done the fake it till you make it act on HN...

Indeed. That is how the entire AI industry exists.

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

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Post by hamandcheese »

jayd16 wrote: post #61
thraway3837 wrote: post #39

We replaced a 120,000 USD/year low-code/no-code platform that was running a lot of workflows. And we have another platform that is also similar that we are on track to replace by EOY. Both have been replaced by "vibe" coding. It works well. Everyone's happy. People are having fun with it. We get feature requests, improvements, ideas, feedback. JIRA tickets get created, and we ask AI to reference that ticket, code to…

So wait are you saying you replaced an online tool with a local vibe coded app? Is it a web app with vibe ops? What's running all of the workflows now? Are you vibe provisioning new cloud instances? Or does everything run on local machines now?

I highly recommend Workers for Platforms for anyone wanting to deploy vibecoded apps: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-for-platforms/w...
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