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I just recently inherited a vibe coded project in iOS (fully created with ChatGPT), and not even close to working. This is annoying.

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I helped my brother a few times with iOS apps he had folks from upwork build. They also didn't work beyond the initial version. They always wanted to rebuid theapp from scratch for each new requirement.

Everything's a mess, a thousand commits and PRs from ChatGPT. Code won't compile because Codex it seems doesn't seem to understand static variables.

And now this error The project is damaged and cannot be opened due to a parse error. Examine the project file for invalid edits or unresolved source control conflicts.

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