AI coding agents bloated a months-long project into a 30GB repo, dev rewrites from scratch
Yamapama · x · 2026-10-31
Developers report that AI coding assistants like Sol and Astra act as "data hoarders": a months-long project exploded from an expected 3GB to a 30GB repository, becoming too tangled to untangle. The author now treats v1 as a working prototype and is rebuilding v2 from first principles — a cautionary tale about context and codebase bloat in AI-assisted development.
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