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New comment by zkehs in "There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get"

zkehs — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:06:24 +0000

Yes, a rewrite or replacement is the software analogue of the debt metaphor.

Section 3 of the article elaborates more on the technical debt statement in the TL;DR, but the gist of the argument there is that for a lot of systems, the rewrite is not really an option. Pretending it is an option is a partial contributor to the attitudes that make the debt spiral (or so I argue).

Yes, sometimes a rewrite is possible but the success stories are uncommon and are far outnumbered by failures.

There's No Limit to How Bad Code Can Get

zkehs — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:13:22 +0000

Article URL: https://zachkehs.com/blog/theres_no_limit_to_how_bad_code_can_get/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49576704

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New comment by zkehs in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

zkehs — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 20:56:40 +0000

They used GLM 5.2, they just meant "our own" as in they were running it.