Yes
I've been fixing dozens of minor bugs in our codebase that no one's been arsed to fix for years
micromacrofoot on Hacker News
2X
In the thread “Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome”, replying to this comment
Helped: Understanding codebase enough to explain it in writing.
I've been finding actual human-written bugs and correcting them with Claude, so I find the "often broken" claims a load of nonsense... I've been fixing dozens of minor bugs in our codebase that no one's been arsed to fix for years due to bigger priorities (which tbh is generating more features and tech debt). It may change in the future, but AI is without a doubt improving our codebase right now. …