{"author":"nicoburns","children":[{"author":"saynay","children":[],"created_at":"2026-04-01T13:16:59.000Z","created_at_i":1775049419,"id":47600450,"options":[],"parent_id":47600317,"points":null,"story_id":47597085,"text":"Claude folks proudly claim to have Claude effectively writing itself. The CEO claims it will read an issue and automatically write a fix, tests, commit and submit a PR for it.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null},{"author":"amangsingh","children":[],"created_at":"2026-04-01T13:18:49.000Z","created_at_i":1775049529,"id":47600469,"options":[],"parent_id":47600317,"points":null,"story_id":47597085,"text":"Bingo. And them 'being careful' is exactly what bloats it to 500k lines. It's a ton of on-the-fly prompt engineering, context sanitizers, and probabilistic guardrails just to keep the vibes in check.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}],"created_at":"2026-04-01T13:05:18.000Z","created_at_i":1775048718,"id":47600317,"options":[],"parent_id":47599312,"points":null,"story_id":47597085,"text":"Kinda depends how much of it is vibe coded. It could easily be 5x larger than it needs to be just because the LLM felt like it if they've not been careful.","title":null,"type":"comment","url":null}