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.
I'm also waiting with bated breath for "How Affirm Retooled its C-Level for Agentic Decision Making and Execution in One Week", and the follow-up headlines from that. Any time now.
> 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.
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.
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.
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.
Headline soon: Affirm lays off 799 software developers
Headline later: Affirm data breach exposes personal details and bank information of millions of users
I'm also waiting with bated breath for "How Affirm Retooled its C-Level for Agentic Decision Making and Execution in One Week", and the follow-up headlines from that. Any time now.
Good thing that didn't require two weeks, as that is about 14 attention spans.
> 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.
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.
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.
Do I have to read the article before calling it bs?
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.
Are these guys public? Can I short them? Oh, even easier maybe just wager on Kalshi?
They raised about a billion in their IPO. They're listed on the Nasdaq [0].
0: https://www.nasdaq.com/market-activity/stocks/afrm