Hacker News: adnasalkhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=adnasalkHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:42:50 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by adnasalk in "What Claude Code's Source Revealed About AI Engineering Culture"]]>the "it worked despite being bad code" argument proves too much. plenty of bad codebases succeeded for reasons unrelated to their quality such as first mover, distribution, pricing. correlation isn't causation, and survivorship bias is real. the 3K-line function didn't make Claude Code win, the model and the timing did.

the more honest version of golly_ned's point upthread is narrower: in the very early days of a new category, shipping beats quality because nothing is proven yet. that's actually true. it's not true as a general principle, and it's definitely not true for the 99% of projects that aren't racing to define a new market.

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