Comment by croon

>> but I look at those same people’s code and it’s horrific, and then I find they haven’t made it far past a proof of concept phase.

> Work on small projects (< 500k lines of code).

> Work for business people who want fast results. Agentic coding gets you to something presentable much faster at the cost of code quality.

You then expand on methods and processes that work for you, but I think the crucial question that you do not answer is: How long lived are any of these codebases?