HN user

whythismatters

10 karma
Posts3
Comments10
View on HN

When I looked into opencode a few months ago I was struck by the default system prompt which came across as messy and random, iirc it also contained a typo or two. It made me look elsewhere and I didn't look back.

Most (proprietary) 25 year old PHP codebases I've seen are a huge mess riddled with issues, exuberant loc, mix of tabs and spaces and weird indentation, dry violations, slightly diverging code blocks copy-pasted all over the place, etc., etc. Resolving technical debt (let alone reviewing the "stuff that works" like SQL queries) is often low priority because it's tedious and does not create any "business value".