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Affirm Retooled for Agentic Software Development in One Week

https://medium.com/@affirmtechnology/how-affirm-retooled-its-engineering-organization-for-agentic-software-development-in-one-week-1fd35268fde6
23•brd529•2h ago

Comments

scientaster2•1h ago
Any bets on how long it'll take for a security breach, now that every attacker knows affirm is vibe coding 60% of PRs?

I feel like these top down mandates miss the forest through the trees -- in isolation claude code is a speedup, like how sometimes WD40 is the right tool for the job. But when applying it to everything, you end up with a sticky mess.

dotdi•1h ago
> We move money, so mistakes are costly and quality is contractually non-negotiable. We build on a twelve-year-old monorepo with structural bottlenecks: bloated test suites, manual code review, unstable CI, and deploy infrastructure not made for the pace we need.

In my experience, each single item on this list already is a major hurdle for AI agents. The unholy union of all of them together is something I couldn't personally be responsible for - period.

Working on that codebase - I'm sure - is already difficult and often frustrating. Having a horde of short-term-memory-only agents without any real institutional knowledge is a recipe for disaster. I'm sure the rollout looks great on paper, and long-term effects are - conveniently - not the scope of this article.

ziml77•1h ago
Headline soon: Affirm lays off 799 software developers

Headline later: Affirm data breach exposes personal details and bank information of millions of users

deadbabe•1h ago
Affirm is on its way out anyway, so really this is one last Hail Mary to try to prop up the company, they don’t have much left to lose.
postexitus•47m ago
Do I have to read the article before calling it bs?
anonzzzies•39m ago
I am confused why you would write a public article about it as a financial company. But I have many things I am confused about here; I cannot really figure what they do that requires 800 people or how 130m tx/y is anything to boast about in itself. But maybe it is fantastic; I don't know.
ookblah•39m ago
having tried to wrangle this on my own over months and still seeing gaps everyday i have to raise severe skepticism on this lol.

you mandate and "solve" this in a few weeks over 1:N channels and measure on a metric that nobody even fully understands yet = someone getting paid to bullshit some metrics on agentic productivity to executives. i agree with other posters, 12 months until a dumpster fire of shit reveals itself.

FWIW, i think it is the future but not in the way that'd described here.

sharadov•32m ago
Are these guys public? Can I short them? Oh, even easier maybe just wager on Kalshi?
jihadjihad•18m ago
They raised about a billion in their IPO. They're listed on the Nasdaq [0].

0: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/afrm

jmount•10m ago
Good thing that didn't require two weeks, as that is about 14 attention spans.

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Affirm Retooled for Agentic Software Development in One Week

https://medium.com/@affirmtechnology/how-affirm-retooled-its-engineering-organization-for-agentic...
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