Manifold’s codebase is also shaky and would not survive Manifold-the-company dying right now.
Can you elaborate on this point? Why wouldn’t the codebase be salvageable?
I don’t have any special knowledge, but my guess is their code is like a spaghetti tower (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NQgWL7tvAPgN2LTLn/spaghetti-towers#:~:text=The distinction about spaghetti towers,tower is more like this.) because they’ve prioritized pushing out new features over refactoring and making a solid code base.
Can you elaborate on this point? Why wouldn’t the codebase be salvageable?
I don’t have any special knowledge, but my guess is their code is like a spaghetti tower (https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NQgWL7tvAPgN2LTLn/spaghetti-towers#:~:text=The distinction about spaghetti towers,tower is more like this.) because they’ve prioritized pushing out new features over refactoring and making a solid code base.