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I asked claude 4.0 to rate a project written by the CTO that I am supposed to maintain solo (have been doing so for a while now - other projects aren't better) (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by idriss@lemm.ee to c/programminghumor@lemmy.world

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(I took the last summary part only for obvious reasons)

Result is hilarious but I couldn't agree more. Here's the prompt:

what's your overall view of this project? what major design flaws do you see or good design decisions you like? be brutal, reality check time

edit: clarification before you guys jump me, the company paid for agentic editing to give it a shot and this is the first thing I asked

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

edit: clarification before you guys jump me, the company paid for agentic editing to give it a shot and this is the first thing I asked

Then I shall refrain from it.

But what's wrong with active development on a legacy code base? Sure those FIXMEs and TODOs should be cleaned up as that's obvious tech debt, but besides that?

CTOs are not architects, so much is clear and this project shows issues running deep in your companies culture.

[–] idriss@lemm.ee 3 points 1 week ago

But what’s wrong with active development on a legacy code base? Sure those FIXMEs and TODOs should be cleaned up as that’s obvious tech debt, but besides that?

I don't think FIXMEs & TODOs are a problem either if you have a system on how to deal with them over time..

CTOs are not architects, so much is clear and this project shows issues running deep in your companies culture.

How could you tell? because yes, everything turns into a dick measuring contest (in PRs)