When you see some legacy C++ codebase with millions of lines of code, catching cancer and slowly dying from it is more human than trying to unscrew that mess.

When you see some legacy C++ codebase with millions of lines of code, catching cancer and slowly dying from it is more human than trying to unscrew that mess. A really screwed code base blows out your context window and just starts burning tokens as the AI works out a way to kill -9 itself to escape the hell you're subjecting it to.