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The codebase that I deal with at work was entirely vibecoded by my boss and it's such a hulking piece of shit it's utterly mindbending. One like = one horror story

20/10/26, 1:05 am1 repost26 likes

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Last week, I approved someone for an account on our website. That approval request took about 30 seconds; I discovered that was because it somehow triggered a flow to mutate *literally every single record on the entire website*

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@victimsof.capital

I just fixed an issue today where the page listing whether our invoices had been fulfilled took 51 seconds (!!!) to load because it was doing an n^2 operation on every single bill in the company site

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@victimsof.capital

My boss often forgets which features he's implemented and will randomly start using different words to describe the same concept. The AI won't make the connection, so it gets built twice. We had Hours, Shifts, Schedules, and Work Offers, which all did the *exact same thing*

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When he talked about hiring me, I asked him what framework he was using; he said he didn't know. When I asked him what language he was using, he said " I know there's JavaScript"; I said Django probably would've been better. He immediately put Claude on ultracode and ported the whole thing