On one hand, thanks for being honest about a story of how this bug came to be.
On the other hand, I don’t think advertising the fact that the company introduced a major bug from copy and pasting ChatGPT code around and that they spent a week being unable to even debug why it was failing.
I don’t know much about this startup, but this blog post had the opposite effect of all of the other high quality post-mortem posts I’ve read lately. Normally the goal of these posts is to demonstrate your team’s rigor and engineering skills, not reveal that ChatGPT is writing your code and your engineers can’t/won’t debug it for a very long time despite knowing that it’s costing them signups.
On the other hand, I don’t think advertising the fact that the company introduced a major bug from copy and pasting ChatGPT code around and that they spent a week being unable to even debug why it was failing.
I don’t know much about this startup, but this blog post had the opposite effect of all of the other high quality post-mortem posts I’ve read lately. Normally the goal of these posts is to demonstrate your team’s rigor and engineering skills, not reveal that ChatGPT is writing your code and your engineers can’t/won’t debug it for a very long time despite knowing that it’s costing them signups.