Re:Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%
by ianmarcinkowski on Saturday August 08, 2026 @08:35AM
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I'm totally willing to believe that new orders of magnitude of software complexity are going to be possible with this kind of engineering. And also, my company brings in a lot of revenue off of 200k lines of code. My old startup brought in millions of revenue on ... very little code tbh.
Have you ever listened to a politician talk for an hour and you can't remember what they talked about?
If some VC wanted to fund my crazy ideas for building personalized private versions of the internet because people are sick of the nightmare, I would vibe code the hell out of that; but at my current job I have existing customers to keep happy and make sure their financial data doesn't get lost or modified.
Re:Databricks drove down AI coding spend 70%
by sashank_1509 on Saturday August 08, 2026 @03:43PM
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What exactly are you building? Does it need 1M lines of code, or is it 10X the needed code already. SQLite + tests is around 1.5M lines of code, somehow I strongly doubt you’re building anything as complex as SQLite.
Velocity and quality is through the roof, "10x" would be a regression at this point, the bottleneck is only figuring out what is relevant/good to deliver, the implementation is the output of the machine.