The job when picking up a codebase made by human or machine always involves reverse-engineering the design intent from code. That's especially hard for LLM-generated code because the path to runtime was so rushed.

> It's more expensive to fix code at runtime than at compile time and at compile time than at design time. Unfortunately, AI rushes people to runtime as fast as possible.

https://www.slater.dev/2025/09/about-that-gig-fixing-vibe-co...

One of the things that annoys me is that we could know what the original intent was, and indeed the preferred form for modification: the prompt! Yet for some reason there's no standard/tradition/expectation that people commit all their prompting.

Perhaps I should start trolling people that your software is not truly Open Source if it's not Open Prompt.