I couldn’t believe it either 😅
When I first heard on Gergely Orosz’s podcast that some days Steve Yegge would change 50,000 lines of code with full vibe coding, I laughed. Impossible, right?
So I checked… and I was amazed.
Nearly 300,000 lines of code changed (added or removed) in my GitHub over the last 10 weeks. And I wasn’t even trying 😄
A few caveats:
- I was prototyping 5 different services
- One project I deleted and rewrote from scratch with a better prompt 3 times 🤷♂️
But still, it’s obviously not 300,000 lines of production quality code. Around 50-70% is throwaway code… and honestly, that’s exactly what I needed.
- When I don’t know what I want: I just test it out!
- When I don’t know if the solution will work at all: I test it out!
- When I don’t know if the architecture makes sense: I test it out!
No more analysis paralysis 🚀
Build, rebuild, and move in small steps toward real value.
Originally posted on LinkedIn.