Comment by pzo
8 hours ago
I had few projects like that this year and I can say it how messy and demotivating its to cleaning up mess.
And its actually not well paid because client now has the expectation that mostly everything is now done, you have to just only fix few things and you even have AI at your disposal so expect that you just write a better magic prompt.
I think actually often its faster and cheaper to start from scratch or at least rewrite whole module (of course still with AI with just better vibe engineering rather than vibe coding).
It's similar with house renovation - often its just cheaper and faster to tear whole building down rather than fixing it.
Would you be able to share any more details on the clean up projects you had to do? Like, wasn't front or back end, which tech stack, where were the LLM code issues etc.
I'm just very curious where we are at the moment with in this profession.
Not OP, but I’ve spent months cleaning up sqlalchemy models that were written in isolation using AI. Project was just not scalable.