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greatgibtoday at 12:11 AM4 repliesview on HN

Such a joke to advertise Claude as a tool to work on corporate technical debt when it is definitively the thing that will increase it a lot.

And let's not even discuss the vacuity of their new cash machine certifications. "Architect" come on...


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scuff3dtoday at 3:28 AM

We're 6 months away from some company's app/infrastructure/whatever going down and staying down, because literally nobody knows how the 500,000 line code base works and Claude is stuck in a loop.

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otabdeveloper4today at 7:02 AM

LLMs are good for documenting specific things.

E.g., "find where the method X is called and what arguments are passed".

That can be useful for refactoring or debugging.

Coding is the worst way to use an LLM though.

rednafitoday at 1:27 AM

Shhh...you're only supposed to unilaterally praise it to get along with your clueless leadership.

heliumteratoday at 2:09 AM

The same is true for every other strategy to avoid technical debt.

It is bullshit all the way down.