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only-one1701 ◴[4/3/2025, 9:12:00 PM] No.43575480[source]▶

Increasingly I’m realizing that in most cases there is a SIGNIFICANT difference between how useful AI is on greenfield projects vs how useful it is on brownfield projects. For the former: pretty good! For the brownfield, it’s often worse than useless.

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1. bdcravens ◴[4/4/2025, 12:56:00 AM] No.43577248[source]▶

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I find that feeding in a bunch of context can help you refactor, add tests to a low coverage application pretty quickly, etc in brownfield apps.

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