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It's only 510k LoC, at ~100 lines of code a day for a year, this code base would take 23 engineers a year to write. That's for 220 working days in somewhere civilized.

And I'm sure we all know that when working on a greenfield project you can produce a lot more LoC per day than maintaining a legacy one.

Given that vibe code is significantly more verbose, you're probably talking about ~15 engineers worth of code?

I know that's all silly numbers, but this is just attempting to give people some context here, this isn't a massive code base. I've not read a lot of it, so maybe it's better than the verbose code I see Claude put out sometimes.

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When you say it’s not a massive codebase, I’m curious, what are you comparing it to?
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The previous poster was making out that in a year the code base would be a mess if people had done it.

This is a two-pizza team sized project, so it's not a project that the code quality would inevitably spiral out of control due to communication problems.

A single senior architect COULD have kept the code quality under control.

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