My guess is it’s an email filter.
> million lines of code
> written 100% by agents
Yeah, probably an email filter. Or maybe a JS menu for a departmental wiki that basically recreates jquery using MS JScript and transpiles it into JS 5.
It may also be an email generator.
The email filter team is trying to match the pace of innovation of the email generation team. At stakes is the ability for the employees to process the billions of mission-critical generated emails each of them receives each day.
Probably because you smoked too much weed in school.
Remember, this is the tech industry! An abject lack of knowledge is no impediment for people with boundless confidence in their assumptions!
There are certainly very large applications in that repo in the hundreds of millions of lines of code. But comparing the entire repo to single applications is not an apt comparison.
The world’s biggest software is usually built over endless adapters of different data and a need to reconcile endless edge cases with laws, regulations and real world complexities.
https://openhub.net/p/chrome/analyses/latest/languages_summa...
Somehow everything boris says has become the word of God. The dude is just an engineer, like you and me, who gets unlimited tokens for free.
And this is hacker news. A place where famously the most upvoted comment is the one critical of the post.
I may not be representative of the universe or have a controlled, randomized study to back it up, but that's not what upvotes are for are they?
>We intentionally chose this constraint so we would build what was necessary to increase engineering velocity by orders of magnitude
What kind of wanky bs is "engineering velocity". Maybe the post was written by AI?
Whether or not the whole concept is wanky bs depends on who you ask lol. It's useful if you measure it over time, not so much otherwise.