Dan Shipper

And so...

basically, like, I had someone come in and help me just... Okay, just be like, okay, if we went back to first principles, how would we architect this?

And I guarantee... Like, I already knew most of what he said.

It just, like, wasn't fully there because I was, like, trying to transition...

from I didn't even know that codex didn't know the best practices to okay I'm having codex do the best practices but it's still like slightly doesn't want to do the full like rewrite and delete a lot of code and whatever and the guy that I brought in who's super talented was just like yeah this is this is exactly the thing that we need to do and like I'll just rip out a lot of the code and he used codex to do it but

It doesn't necessarily come naturally to the AI models to do this yet.

And now it's like fairly stable.

I'm happy with it.

Some of the code is different, but it's not a totally different app than it used to be.

And it happened very quick.

He was able to essentially stabilize it in a couple of days of work.

So it's pretty crazy what you can do.

And certainly at the scale that we're at and the level of sleepless nights that I was having,

I probably would be more careful next time, but I think generally this is fine.

It really can.

It contains all of the knowledge of all of humanity, and you're only kind of getting a little slice of what it knows.

Based on what you know to ask it.

Exactly.

So it's a real skill to use these things, and I don't think that's going away.

I mean, I just think a prompt engineer, I think everyone is sort of a prompt engineer.