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Re:Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in... by arthurjean on Saturday March 21, 2026 @01:17PM (#47469000)
Sounds about right for someone who ships fast and iterates. 54 days for a v0 that probably needs refactoring isn't that crazy if the dev has a real DB background. We've all seen open source projects drag on for 3 years without shipping anything, that's not necessarily better
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Re:Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in... by Aurornis on Saturday March 21, 2026 @03:43PM (#47470536)
200,000 lines of code on week 1 is not a sign of a quality codebase with careful thought put into it.

> We've all seen open source projects drag on for 3 years without shipping anything, that's not necessarily better

There are more options than “never ship anything” and “use AI to slip 200,000 lines of code into a codebase”

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Re:Grafeo – A fast, lean, embeddable graph database built in... by TheJord on Saturday March 21, 2026 @05:23PM (#47471560)
shipping fast matters a lot less than shipping something you actually understand. 200k lines in a week means nobody knows what's in there, including the author. that's not a codebase, it's a liability
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