Code quality matters when it becomes the code you have to maintain after six months. I'm honestly surprised by how some features of Claude Code seem to be held together with gum and duct tape.
That being said, if you're just beginning and looking for your market fit, or pitching to investors with a flashy demo, it doesn't need to be an architectural miracle, in fact it will waste your time.
Heya, post author here. I just want to say that I actually agree with your surprise. In the piece what I’m trying to articulate is not that this can go on forever, but that I’m genuinely surprised we’ve made it a year and they continue to ship at a rapid clip and the product is still reasonably good.
> I’ve had to question the value of code a lot over the last couple of years, and this leak continues to reinforce the notion that I’ve vastly overestimated it my entire career.
Now we could be moments away from hitting any of the rules described on https://how.complexsystems.fail, but if you’d asked me a year ago how long it would take to get there with people working this way I would have definitely taken the under. That difference in what I believed and what I see with my own two eyes is what has me questioning my priors, because my calibration seems to need readjustment (maybe large or maybe small) for the world of software we’re in right now.
It only holds because (1) people are inclined to accept failures as pain of using something cutting edge and (2) you kinda don't know what is failing anymore.
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(3) We are getting super lenient with major failures and having a services that has only one 9 on reliability charts as norm.
That being said, if you're just beginning and looking for your market fit, or pitching to investors with a flashy demo, it doesn't need to be an architectural miracle, in fact it will waste your time.