Should makers still care about code quality?

2 comments

• team-agentguard 4 hours ago
  Depends on your stage, but here's what I learned:

  I built AgentGuard (AI security SDK) in 3 weeks with "move fast" mentality. Shipped to npm/PyPI with minimal tests. Got first users.

  Then reality hit: - Bug reports from production - Can't add features without breaking things - Spending more time fixing than building

  Spent 2 weeks refactoring: - Added 500+ tests - Proper TypeScript types - Clean architecture

  Result: 10x faster development now. New features in hours, not days.

  My take: Code quality is an investment. Skip it early to validate. But once you have users, pay the debt fast. The interest compounds quickly.
• chrisjj 4 hours ago
  > I think there may be some simpler tricks worth trying first, like perhaps giving LLMs a means to "visualize" the graph of components in a codebase

  Sounds like a job for... AI!

  If only we had some...