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Re:The Codex app is cool, and it illustrates the shift left ... by Sunscratch on Thursday February 05, 2026 @02:34AM (#46896815)
>Here’s the thing: I don’t read code anymore. I used to write code and read code. Now when something isn’t working, I don’t go look at the code. I don’t question the code. I either ask one of my coding agents, or - more often - I ask myself: what happened with my system? What can I improve about the inputs that led to that code being generated?

Good luck debugging any non trivial problem in such codebase

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Re:The Codex app is cool, and it illustrates the shift left ... by bonesss on Thursday February 05, 2026 @06:40AM (#46898585)
Not to mention data retention and upgrade management.

When an update script jacks up the guaranteed-to-be-robust vibed data setup in this first of a kind, one of a kind, singular installation… what then?

The pros have separate dev, test, QA, and prod environments. Immutable servers, NixOs, containers, git, and rollback options in orchestration frameworks. Why? Because uh-oh, oh-shit, say-what, no-you’re-kidding, oh-fuck, and oops are omnipresent.

MS Access was a great product with some scalability ceilings that took engineering to work past. MS Access solutions growing too big then imploding was a real concern that bit many departments. MS access was not dumping 15,000 LoC onto the laps of these non-developers and telling them they are hybrid spirit code warriors with next level hacking skills.

Ruby on Rails, Wordpress, SharePoint… there are legitimately better options out there for tiny-assed self-serving CRUD apps and cheap developer ecosystems. They’re not quite as fun, tho, and they don’t gas people up as well.

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