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Re:The Tower Keeps Rising by sph on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @01:41AM (#48916680)
Does this speed of development only apply to the early stages, or will it slow down as the codebase grows? I have yet to see these 100x improvements (and the claims themselves keep getting bigger) on anything more than prototype scale, rather than month-long projects.

No doubt AI boosters will claim we have found an O(1) productivity enhancer that is somehow two orders of magnitude better than anything else before. This is entering lunacy territory.

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Re:The Tower Keeps Rising by stavros on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @01:54AM (#48916754)
To me, it applies as long as you can keep the state of the system in your head (so, same as we always did architecture).

For example, I built this over a month or so and never hit a slowdown or quality issue:

https://github.com/skorokithakis/stavrobot

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