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YesClaude Code · 8 Jun 2025

We found some really gnarly things that had been forgotten in the codebase

diwank on Hacker News

In the thread “Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude”, replying to this comment

Helped: Asking to flag confusing code for documentation.

… Another interesting trick I found to be surprisingly effective is to ask Claude Code to “Look around the codebase, and if something is confusing, or weird/counterintuitive — drop a AIDEV-QUESTION: … comment so I can document that bit of code and/or improve it”. We found some really gnarly things that had been forgotten in the codebase.