Mixed
its effectiveness on a 10-year old distributed codebase is pretty low
bolobo on Hacker News
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Got in the way: 10-year old distributed codebase
… In my circles, Senior engineer are not using them a lot, or in very specific use cases. My company is blocking LLMs use apart from a few pilots (which I am part of, and while claude code is cool, its effectiveness on a 10-year old distributed codebase is pretty low). You can't make sweeping statements like this, software engineering is a large field. …