alt Hacker News> Author here, we don't use generative AI for software development.
You don't have to use it to directly write code. You can use it just for the analysis phase, not making any changes.
> Author here, we don't use generative AI for software development.
You don't have to use it to directly write code. You can use it just for the analysis phase, not making any changes.
I've tried that (with Sonnet 4.5 at least, not Opus) and Claude isn't good at code analysis because it's too lazy. It just grepped for a few things and then made the rest of it up.
I think the issue is mostly that it desperately tries to avoid filling its context window, and Anthropic writes system prompts that are so long it's practically already full from the start.
A good harness to read code for you and write a report on it would certainly be interesting.