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@nick_woodward_ @dreamsofcode_io no, I'm not. show me code that handles all potential status code errors from a third party service vs one that doesn't. guess what, the robust code that handles all failure scenarios and properly retries, logs, rollback transactions will have more lines of code

@dreamsofcode_io @webdevcody He knows. He's engagement farming.

Why is there so much anti-LoC rhetoric? At some point, more features, edge cases, security, and reliability require more code. There’s no magic abstraction that lets you build an operating system in 500 lines. Unless you’re building a todo app, you’ll need lots of code.

@theognisSC2 been using cursor cli a lot, but I use goal as well

@webdevcody curious, why do you use /loop and not /goal?

the biggest issue I have with using ai are the gaps and drift they leave when you make changes. a simple "/loop remove as much dead code from my project until you get it all" will show you that all the previous prompts you made with AI left a bunch of stuff.

@kevin_moechel Static analysis finds predefined patterns. AI can reason about intent and context. Will fallow audit find abandoned Terraform resources, overly broad IAM policies, obsolete feature flags, or code that still runs but no longer serves a purpose? They’re complementary tools.

@webdevcody pnpm dlx fallow audit Why trust non-determinism to find something that's perfectly fine too evaluate with static analysis? And all the tokens wasted..

@ahmed_eumar the P0-P1 I wouldn't ignore, especially if using frontier model to do the security audit

@webdevcody Most of my experience with this is one or two geniune issues and the rest are non-issues, false positives ,etc... Is this yor experience as well?

"/loop continue to explore my codebase using sub agents for security issues and create a github issue for each one with the proper P0-P4 label"

@alonshrestha did I say success anywhere in my post?

@webdevcody so? you mean code volume equal success. i'm more worried if you used ai to build this content.

just remember, some kid in college with multiple Claude Code subscriptions using Fable 5 is producing more code in the past few weeks than you ever have in your entire 10+ software career.

@thingsdev14 yes, the model looks into something new to investigate each prompt from what I'm seeing

@webdevcody Is there any difference between the checks?

the key to agentic coding

"Hey, so welcome to the interview! before we start I just want to make sure you're ok that we use Gemini to record our conversation so that we can feed it to an LLM to determine if you're a good culture fit or not. Ok? First question, What’s your biggest weakness?"

@mattpocockuk then yes, make more roadsigns for ai

@webdevcody I consider those roadsigns rather than docs

Docs explaining the code is wild, I've never done that. High level system architecture docs are useful though otherwise you'll just watch these agents re-explore the same files trying to "understand" how it works constantly (thus using more tokens each new session).

These models ALWAYS stop short with every single prompt I have ever done. Even with well thought out workflow that guide the AI in phases, it will skip stuff and not get it all. The only way to use AI is to re-prompt it over and over again to check it's work.

@blizzy78 @mattpocockuk this one was good

@mattpocockuk use the source

1. Delete the docs you create to explain your code 2. Take the tokens you save on updating those docs 3. Spend them on making your code self-explanatory

@grantjordan nothing better than a human intentionally causing more work for the entire team because of "dogma"

I like this take. Forked a repo recently to add a needed feature. CI failed because LoC was above 1250. But most of it was tests and documentation. Feature was solid but the maintainer refused unless I split it into multiple PRs simple because of an arbitrary LoC requirement. Totally arbitrary requirement based on human coding norms, not ai norms of today.

@theo @ceo_on_bus y'all still haven't learned Theo is a marketing genius

@ceo_on_bus "slop" accounts? My employees are quality shitposters thank you very much Separately, it's a requirement that all of my employees make fun of me regularly. My haters suck at it so someone's gotta do it right.

does @theo has multiple slop accounts ? i won't dare to speak against my boss

@gnodilov and who tells you this?

@webdevcody It doesn't mean maximizing LOC for the sake of maximizing is the right thing. We are told now 100k+ LOC todo app is fine

@joshmanders I think 1 more claude sub can fix them

Y’all need therapy. Holy shit.

@normal_brandon1 coding isn't art at this point

@webdevcody Like judging an artist by the number of art pieces they have.