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Re:Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? by an0malous on Monday December 08, 2025 @08:04PM (#46200046)
Are you suggesting the original ChatGPT could build DigitalOcean?
Re:Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? by neom on Monday December 08, 2025 @08:21PM (#46200166)
To me, built and written are not the same. Built: OK, maybe that's an exaggeration. But could an early "this is pretty good at code" llm have written digitalocean v1? I think it could, yes (no offense Jeff). In terms of volume of code and size of architecture, yeah it was big and complex, but it was literally a bunch of relatively simple cron, bash and perl, and the whole thing was very...sloppy (because we were moving very quickly) - DigitalOcean as I last knew of it (a very long time ago), transformed to a very well written modern go shop. (Source: I am part of the "founding team" or whatever.)