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> To the point that now I could not in good faith say I understand the system I have built from the ground-up and worked on the last ~4-5 years.

You weren't programming with LLMs in 2021 or 2022, be real. More like 2024 (that's already pushing it) or 2025.

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Because telling lies on the internet attached to my real name is so beneficial to my reputation, right?

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You poor soul. You were gambling against roulette odds.

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I'd guess they started developing the project back in 2021 coding by hand, and are now improving/maintaining via agenetic engineering. This is not uncommon.

The point is that it's easy to lose understanding of the finer details, even of a codebase you lovingly created, once this switch occurs and an LLM gets its hands on it.

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