just talking to a talented engineer who was lamenting the code quality of a PM who prototypes concepts with vibe coding these days "You don’t want to look at the code" he says sure, but just get the thing working and you can make the code more pro later. prompt the llm with something like this: "look at this repo and tell me what's going on. explain what this software is intending to do. then propose ways we could refactor the code to make it simpler. don't write/change any code yet. just analyze, explain, and propose what we might want to do. I will review and approve before we start refactoring anything"
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