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Does he know what a technical debt is?
The 1st major project in my first coding job made me understand technical debt even though I didn't know the name of it.
I suppose there are some people that just see spaghetti code and their only thought is to add more spaghetti code. Thankfully I also understood spaghetti code with my project in uni.
Nah, we need to optimize the spaghetti code with an n8n optimization pipeline for more spaghetti, lets make sure to build a new library for eache seperate function call. Once the function has run we'll tear down that library and build the next, if it errors out that's fine, we can just have the GPT hallucinate another library and call that into the function. It's fungible OOP all the way down. Infinite code is infinite tech debt, I call that job security.
It’s not negative that nobody understands the spaghetti code, it’s advanced optimized code that mere mortals can’t comprehend, and marketing can sell that.
Don’t forget to bill by the hour to clients for bug fixes.
This guy speaks "solutions architect"
Oh man the worst guy I ever worked with got hired to be a solutions architect.
I was so happy he left. He'd always just say yes to whatever we were asked, even if it was literally impossible. Then he'd fuck off and leave me to deal with actually doing the project and would just throw some wrong advice at me and spend the rest of the day browsing the internet at his desk.
Damn you, now I want spaghetti and mushrooms.
Until the AI Token bills start getting counted into your CTC.
Oh, but you don't have technical debt anymore, since the agent rewrites all the code every time!
And much like copying a copy, more and more errors creep in each time.
The most important thing in vibe coding is to cash the check and nope out of there before management realize what you've done.
It's a problem you type into a chat for Claude to solve.