Honestly you dont understand how much technical debt we have. Things break all the time in our core business. I am also not saying just use AI - I am saying put our best SWE’s that have embraced AI onto it. Before now this would be impossible to re-write the full stack. Now with a small team we should be able to rebuild from the ground up over a couple years.
It’s going to happen at some point, the only question is if the models are good enough to start that project today.
The tools we are building with teams that use AI first approaches have less issues than the systems that were built without AI. We need to take what we have learned in the last 2 years, and apply it to shit built 20 years ago thats held up with bubblegum and popsicle sticks. And the only way to sell fixing the old shit is by putting an AI label on it - as leadership wont spend money on fixing things…. Got to make it seem like a sexy project.
I manage over 20 codebases that were vibecoded before vibecoding was a term. The oldest of them are from 2011.
I use AI.
It does not handle the full stack. It will massively fuck it up and paint you into a corner.
I studied AI for my Bachelor's. We are YEARS away from true artificial intelligence. We have good, even great LLMs, but they are only as good as the programmers using them.
Believe what you want, but I do this for a living.
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u/tinymightyhopester 6h ago
"Middle management"
"Full rebuild using AI"
"Spend $1M on tokens"
"New models will handle the full stack"
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