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NoAider · 21 May 2025

I've gotten as far as trying to use Aider for doing some features in our legacy codebase but not having it break the time-cost-benefit barrier

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In the thread “Things that have a bigger impact than coding assistants”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Time-cost-benefit barrier for legacy codebase features.

Sometimes it's not simply a lack of curiosity, but having the space to build these tools into your workflow. As a solo dev responsible for all development, project management, support, & infra, I've gotten as far as trying to use Aider for doing some features in our legacy codebase but not having it break the time-cost-benefit barrier. Now I feel like there's probably other workflows out there that I'm ignorant to that could be better, but keeping up feels impossible. …