Mixed
When I point it at codebases that are 20 years old and have a lot of indirection in their design due to years of hard lessons learned and a lot (like a LOT) of cases covered, it really struggles
zzzeek on Hacker News
In the thread “Parallel AI agents are a game changer”
Helped: Writing changelogs, docs, and tests for straightforward single-file programs.
Got in the way: Fixing issues or adding functionality to 20-year-old complex codebases.
… When I have it fix issues or add functionality to small to medium sized apps that have a mostly simple design, it does great. When I point it at codebases that are 20 years old and have a lot of indirection in their design due to years of hard lessons learned and a lot (like a LOT) of cases covered, it really struggles (just read my profile to know what codebase this is). I mostly try to get it to write changelog messages, docs and tests, where it works, but I have to really wrestle with it. …