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blauditore ◴[] No.46195811[source]
All these engineers who claim to write most code through AI - I wonder what kind of codebase that is. I keep on trying, but it always ends up producing superficially okay-looking code, but getting nuances wrong. Also fails to fix them (just changes random stuff) if pointed to said nuances.

I work on a large product with two decades of accumulated legacy, maybe that's the problem. I can see though how generating and editing a simple greenfield web frontend project could work much better, as long as actual complexity is low.

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1. silisili ◴[] No.46196149[source]
> I work on a large product with two decades of accumulated legacy, maybe that's the problem

Definitely. I've found Claude at least isn't so good at working in large existing projects, but great at greenfielding.

Most of my use these days is having it write specific functions and tests for them, which in fairness, saves me a ton of time.