[NitpickLawyer]

> that says all software written by LLM’s will just work.

Well, certainly not all software. But a static, no deps, no external loading, no db, no dynamic anything binary, written in rust and running on a hardened pod? Yeah, that'll likely "just work".

Note the many good choices made by the person who implemented this. They're not vibe coding stuff straight to prod. They had a hunch it could be done, and tried it out. When it seemed to work, they took the time and effort to think about deployment, make more good choices and so on.

> Was there no open source ip geolocation they could self host before?

Probably, yeah. Would running those have taken less time to audit? I don't think so. Plus they'd probably come with 25 other features that OP didn't need/want. And someone would have still have to spend time integrating it. What's the point then, for such a limited scope app?

[techblueberry]

Yeah, I think I agree with you, but in my experience it’s relatively hard at a glance to figure out what really is a limited scope app, especially once it hits production. If all engineers start thinking this way, I think it will become a tech debt mess. I’ve never worked at a place where I felt like the problem is we don’t have enough code.

It’s the hidden costs of maintaining this quick little thing someone wrote that add up.

The point being, in this new age where code is free, it is the ability to be inhibitory or tasteful that truly defines a successful software engineer.