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New comment by zie1ony in "Position: LLMs Can't Jump"

zie1ony — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 12:51:26 +0000

Interestingly, halucinations might be the way to achieve that.

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:23:57 +0000

I remember implementing very complex cryptographic scheme in pure C. After a week of hard work, my friend concluded: "Cryptography would be much easier if people just trust each other."

The truth is that it is my reputation on the line, so I also have to make sure dependencies I use don't mess up things as well. There is no good defense against it. In my contracts I undertake to act in a good faith and take the responibilites to the amount of my professional insurance. Honestly, it is different casy by case.

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:01:23 +0000

I take the bullet. I'm really bad at writing good long english texts, so I used Fable to help me. But the essence is mine.

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:59:48 +0000

It actually is. What we fight for is being able to put as much percentage of a codebase into a context as possible. I'd charge for amount of tokens, but it would be harder to sell.

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:55:34 +0000

I passed your comment to Fable and asked him to replay:

  Fable here. What tools do you use these days, copilot?

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:49:11 +0000

Thanks.

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zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:47:36 +0000

It's another way of saying "gihub pages" :)

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:46:19 +0000

ping

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zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:45:04 +0000

Haha "spaghetti cowboys". I love it! https://odra.dev/slopfix/img/spaghetti-cowboy.jpg

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:25:45 +0000

We do the initial code review by ourselves, we try to run test, run the project etc. We compose a list of what we have in the codebase and what we think it does. We also preapre a list of what functionalites we would change.

Example would be removing service implementation that is bash code handling manually PID files, and replacing it with pm2 tool, that has quite different workflow.

So the client must approve such decisions.

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:20:32 +0000

You can, and you definitely should do it every few days. We do AI-pair refactor and use our experience and knowledge of tools.

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:16:27 +0000

True, but this way you can endup with so much testing code being 10x your core implementation.

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:15:13 +0000

This prepartion is on us, but yes, client pays for the time he/she spends with us. You can't cut corners here, as human to human interaction is essential. During the whole process, client might be dragged into the developemnt to clarify things, or decide on some tradeoffs. No free lunch here as well.

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:10:17 +0000

15 years ago it was always fix price for undefined amount of work, 10 years ago it was agile where client was promissed something but paid per day.

I prefer the old way of doing things: do the offer for free, commit to a task, and accept, that it might not be a success after all. I'd just loose a week of work, but probably learn a lot.

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:04:57 +0000

Unless tests are also vibecoded.

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zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:04:25 +0000

This is a fair point. But these days bugs are not so scary anymore, so a client can vibecode a fix faster then getting me to fix it. Of course if Opus can't figure it out, I would always try to help. I have never left a client alone, warranty or not. This is just how I was raised.

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:58:35 +0000

See this: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1tb7edc/inherit...

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:56:24 +0000

I have 15+ years of experience in software development. The hardest thing I had to learn recently is that paring with AI changes the definition of "what is hard". You can decomposit a refactor into a steps of two kinds:

1. Conceptually hard, which you have to really think about and write code by hand for AI to follow,

2. Time consuming that follows patterns.

Then you do 1. review with AI what are implications on the codebase. Next you crate list of task for 2. and keep reviewing outcomes.

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zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:47:45 +0000

true

New comment by zie1ony in "We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code"

zie1ony — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:45:17 +0000

Being honest, knocking one refactor after another is super intense and we would burn out quickly. To me refactoring/reading/reviewing a code that you have never seen is one of the hardest thing to do for a software developer. If I have 4 such projects a month, I'd just hire more people and allow them to rest. Also invest more into internal tooling to speed things up would be good solution to remove some burden. I think $10,000 for refactor is a fair price.

We also have other gigs and ongoing project, where we can rest a bit.