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I was able to realize huge productivity gains working on a 20 years old codebase with 2+ million loc
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2+ million loc
In the thread “AI is different”, replying to this comment
Helped: Upfront setup of claude.md and tools for data, logs, and autonomous testing.
I was able to realize huge productivity gains working on a 20 years old codebase with 2+ million loc, as I mentioned in the sister post. So I disagree that big productivity gains are only on greenfield projects. …