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@reiddragon @bitcrush_io Alt text: r/vibecoding
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vibe coded for 6 months. my codebase is a disaster.
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the app works. users are happy. revenue is coming in. (that's actually the only good part)
but i just tried to onboard a dev to help me and he opened the repo and went quiet for like 2 minutes. then said "what is this."
6 months of cursor and lovable and bolt. every feature worked when i shipped it. but nobody was thinking about structure. the Al just kept adding. new file here, duplicate function there, 3 different ways to handle the same thing across the codebase.
tried to refactor it myself last week. gave up after 2 hours. the thing is so tangled that touching one part breaks something completely unrelated.
the generation was fast. the cleanup is a nightmare.
is there even a way out of this or do i just rewrite everything from scratch?

@reiddragon

Plastic code?

Apparently cheap, environmentally expensive, degrades quickly while contaminating the commons and increasingly difficult to remould and reshape.