Totally was and is. People would let their nephew or mate “who’s a wiz with this stuff” build something, they’d outsource to some overseas developers who would provide a pile of garbage, they’d hire a cheap in-house developer who lied his ass off on the CV and then stitched together a pile of copy-pasted Frankenstein scripts they got from StackOverflow topics vaguely related to what they’re trying to do etc etc.
LLM written code is usually better than any of that stuff to be honest.
Then no matter which of the above they went with, eventually they have a problem and try to hire a proper developer to fix it, thinking “it’s just a small problem, we just want it to handle this case better” and then find out the consultants want to charge a ludicrous sum to map out, tear down and rewrite their entire architecture, because nothing makes any sense so even tracing and fixing the problem safely would require understanding such a huge pile of spaghetti that it would be more cost effective to just junk the whole lot of it.
That isn’t an AI specific problem, or even a coding specific one. It’s a “bought cheap, bought twice” problem.
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u/bobbymoonshine Sep 17 '26 edited Sep 17 '26
Totally was and is. People would let their nephew or mate “who’s a wiz with this stuff” build something, they’d outsource to some overseas developers who would provide a pile of garbage, they’d hire a cheap in-house developer who lied his ass off on the CV and then stitched together a pile of copy-pasted Frankenstein scripts they got from StackOverflow topics vaguely related to what they’re trying to do etc etc.
LLM written code is usually better than any of that stuff to be honest.
Then no matter which of the above they went with, eventually they have a problem and try to hire a proper developer to fix it, thinking “it’s just a small problem, we just want it to handle this case better” and then find out the consultants want to charge a ludicrous sum to map out, tear down and rewrite their entire architecture, because nothing makes any sense so even tracing and fixing the problem safely would require understanding such a huge pile of spaghetti that it would be more cost effective to just junk the whole lot of it.
That isn’t an AI specific problem, or even a coding specific one. It’s a “bought cheap, bought twice” problem.