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reqoyesterday at 8:07 PM2 repliesview on HN

IME this works until it does not. This approach works well at the beginning of a greenfield project, but at the same time because it is so easy to add features, you will likely ship something that is way too over engineered. And that complexity will not amortize over next increments and will more likely lead to the entire project being a black box only fully understood by AI. However a more careful use of AI for targeted surgical changes is far more ”productive” in the long term IMO.


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extryesterday at 8:19 PM

Disagree. I operate this way inside a multi-million line legacy codebase.

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vonneumannstanyesterday at 9:29 PM

Wow how many years of experience with Claude Code and Codex do you have? lol

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