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Christopher Bennell

I build web stuff. Full Stack/Platform Engineering/Architecture. Senior Software Engineer.

I Wrote Some Slop, and I didn't Like It

• 1 min read

Had a hobby project I had been working on. A proof of concept, excuse to learn a new thing (in this case ATProto and SvelteKit). I wrote it by hand, stumbing a bit as I was working with a few technologies that were new to me. I got to MVP state, but still had a few things i wanted to add before I could call it “done”. Then it sat around for three months without being touched.

This morning I fired up Opencode and slopped my way through the last few features. A few hours of prompting and background work, and it was done and ready to launch with the new features.

I have no idea how it works anymore

I had code I was proud of, now I don’t know if it’s quality, idiomatic or even correct, just that it appears to work. The changes were to lenghty to review.

Great for a hobby project that you want to get out the door, but I would never treat paid work with this kind of carelessness. I would never treat a project with a server-side component like this.