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Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by smartmic » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:02 AM UTC

brettkromkamp wrote: post #2

He says that this is not 10,000 lines of bug-filled crap… but, unless you are explicitly verifying and testing the code, how would you know? And, what kind of solution needs 10,000 lines of code added to it daily ? Then again, these could be separate solutions. but, still… this 10,000-lines-of-code-a-day thing seems strange.

Exactly. And I wonder why Paul Graham is jumping on such a statement. Of everything I've read by him so far, this has the least substance.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by nivertech » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:03 AM UTC

"I met a guy who takes on $10,000 debt a day thanks to an unlimited line of credit."

What could go wrong?

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by DANmode » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:03 AM UTC

DANmode wrote: post #11

1GZ0 wrote: post #6

Why would anyone care who Paul Graham hangs out with?

Is that a joke?

I bet he'd be pumped to know he created a community that's so counterculture it either doesn't know who he is, or disdains him.

Actual lol.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by firefoxd » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:04 AM UTC

But is he a true Scotsman? https://idiallo.com/byte-size/ai-scotsman

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by koliber » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:04 AM UTC

"I met a founder today who said he ..."

I meet people all the time who say the most incredible things. Sometimes, rarely, these things turn out to be true.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by AndyMcConachie » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:05 AM UTC

PG has become a parody of himself.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by mvdtnz » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:05 AM UTC

VERY important to note that Paul Graham is a dumb guy.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by admissionsguy » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:06 AM UTC

Every time something like this is said, the author turns out (in this case, obviously is given the yc’s recent investment profile) to be a peddler of AI coding tools.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by dejv » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:07 AM UTC

Even if I wrote 10k lines of code a day I will be out of things to implement in day two. Maybe I am working on wrong codebases, but I never felt like I am behind because of not enough lines got writen. It was always finding and forming correct perspective.

Just for fun I checked the codebase stats for platform I am working on and it is 70k lines of code. We are talking about enterprise saas processing payments in billions per year.

Re: "I met a founder who writes 10k lines of code a day thanks to AI"

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Post by jackdoe » Thu, Aug 07, 2025, 8:07 AM UTC

I can see that.

Last week I have been working on remote controlling Borunte welding robots, I wrote 10k lines of code per day, creating all kinds of interfaces, weird ik strategies, camera calibrations, weird joypad controls, cad mouse controls, simulations etc.

None of it was prod ready, I was just experimenting, but tbh I would've made 1/10th of the progress if it wasn't for gemini and claude.

Now I know what to write.

PS: the default ik engine on those robots have a bug that can easily kill you when it gets singular, so if you are working on them, keep your distance :)