Comment by diek

I find it funny that the original complaint was: "AI made a mess of the codebase".

Your response was: "Well you're not doing it right, but these hermes devs know what they're doing".

But the blog post you linked to shows their prompt, which is:

> I want god files broken up. I want simplification across the board. I want unification of helpers and methods that can be reused. I want less if-if-if-if-if-if-else routing. I want code legibility up. I want interpretability of the codebase and how things connect to each other up.

So it sounds like AI made their code a mess too. They then tried to make the point of how much money they saved cleaning up the code with AI, that AI made a mess of to begin with.

And if you look at the merged PRs on that project, a ton of them are bug fixes... to the code the AI wrote. And that's been my personal experience too: AI creates a huge amount of churn in a codebase. Just vast amounts of PRs fixing code that the AI itself wrote.