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I'm dealing with a situation right now where a critical mass of "messy" code means that nobody, human or LLM, can understand what it is trying to do or how a st
by SpicyLemonZest 7mo ago
I'm dealing with a situation right now where a critical mass of "messy" code means that nobody, human or LLM, can understand what it is trying to do or how a straightforward user-specified update should be applied to the underlying domain objects. Multiple proposed semantics have failed so far.
- tracker1 7mo agoOn the plus side.. AI is pretty good at creating (often excessive) tests around a given codebase in order to (re)implement the utility using different backends or structures. The one thing to look out for is that the agent does NOT try to change a failing test, where the test is valid, but the code isn't.