No
I’ve really struggled using it to work on our older code bases
gibspaulding on Hacker News
In the thread “LLM code generation may lead to an erosion of trust”, replying to this comment
Helped: Useful for Greenfield projects.
Got in the way: Overwhelmed by large single-file C modules with global variables.
… I’d love to hear more about your workflow and the code base you’re working in. I have access to Amazon Q (which it looks like is using Claude Sonnet 4 behind the scenes) through work, and while I found it very useful for Greenfield projects, I’ve really struggled using it to work on our older code bases. These are all single file 20,000 to 100,000 line C modules with lots of global variables and most of the logic plus 25 years of changes dumped into a few long functions. …