To play devil's advocate, that sounds like the sort of uncomplicated thing that you could've manually vibecoded in 2020 without an LLM. What changed is that the LLM doesn't let you get analysis paralysis.
>uncomplicated thing
That's pretty naive.
This isn't just a simple http proxy and checking if the requested URL exists on disc. It's a pretty subtle snapshotting system that fully understands and vets apt repos, detecting when the repo changes, proactively downloading "interesting" packages that have updated, verifying and validating all packages, and then promoting the repo to active when it is healthy. Plus a web-based admin interface.
The core of it is around 20K LOC, with another 40K in tests. The COCOMO model gives that an estimate of around 2 developer years of effort assuming full time work.
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>manually vibecoded
What the fuck does this even mean?
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