[ccvannorman]

I joined a company with 20k lines of Next/React generated in 1 month. I spent over a week rewriting many parts of the application (mostly the data model and duplicated/conflicting functionality).

At first I was frustrated but my boss said it was actually a perfect sequence, since that "crappy code" did generate a working demo that our future customers loved, which gave us the validation to re-write. And I agree!

LLMs are just another tool in the chest; a curious, lighting fast jr developer with an IQ of 85 who can't learn and needs a memory wipe whenever they make a design mistake.

When I use it knowing its constraints it's a great tool! But yeah if used wrong you are going to make a mess, just like any powerful tool

[int_19h]

Here's a question for you then. Imagine your own future years and decades spent doing nothing but rewriting crappy code like that. Not as a one-off thing, but as a job description. Does that sound enticing? Do you think you'd able to avoid burnout in the long run?