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In my experience a legacy codebase is where LLM shines. What would take days to grok is understood and explained almost immediately. There was a bit of job secu
by xXSLAYERXx 2mo ago
In my experience a legacy codebase is where LLM shines. What would take days to grok is understood and explained almost immediately. There was a bit of job security with being the one whose worked with IIFEs to manage state.
You must know the codebase well if the LLM is slowing you down.
- bdcravens 2mo agoSome of our biggest wins were in a legacy code base, where changes would require a lot of archaeology. I feel like Claude (and probably most coding LLMs) really shine when optimizing fat blocks of SQL, given the complex relational calculus.