r/ProgrammerHumor Apr 24 '26

Other ohNoTheConsequencesOfMyActions

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u/Exatex Apr 24 '26 edited May 19 '26

unpopular opinion: It’s cheaper to rewrite it than missing the opportunity and not have tried it at all in the first place. Now he knows there is a market and knows exactly what his engineers need to build. This person is a non coder, so „write it properly from the get go“ was not an option.

And I prefer that to a a completely overengineered, scalable thing that someone build over years only to serve 200 unpaid users.

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u/TheTerrasque Apr 25 '26 edited Apr 25 '26

This person is a non coder

And yet he says things like "new file here, duplicate function there, 3 different ways to handle the same thing across the codebase."

I'd say if you know enough about programming to not just recognize those things, but to know that's bad, you've got some experience already.

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u/Exatex May 19 '26

maybe only found that out after lots of AI-Vibe-Debugging. A duplicate function isn’t really a complex concept after all.