3 ms·
> Claude can write the code for you but it can’t understand it for you Part of the problem is that Claude can go spelunking in a spaghetti codebase far faster
by swiftcoder 2mo ago
> Claude can write the code for you but it can’t understand it for you
Part of the problem is that Claude can go spelunking in a spaghetti codebase far faster than us humans. It doesn't necessarily help you understand the project, but if you farm that understanding out to Claude, you can keep working long after the codebase has become unusable for humans...
- pydry 2mo agoIve often wondered what people do when the mess is so bad that Claude hits a wall and nothing works.
- archargelod 2mo agoApparently, from what I usually see, they start a completely new project every couple of days. Some revibe their older projects from scratch, with "better" prompts (surely that was the problem).
- pydry 2mo agocan't do that with a project in production users are depending on