"One prompt built it all!" Frontier dev: we refactor like this several times a day
fkasummer · x · 2026-10-23
A user marveled that a single prompt got an AI to build an entire project. The quoted reply warns: "You don't want to go through a big ontological refactoring lol, speaking from experience." fkasummer adds that for frontier tech work, this happens several times a day — a snapshot of the new AI-coding reality where generation is instant but architecture-level rework is constant.
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