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NoClaude Code, Codex · 9 Dec 2025

Until reaching the point where CC starts being unable to comprehend its own work and I have to plan out tedious large scale refactors

ewoodrich on Hacker News

In the thread “Has the cost of building software dropped 90%?”, replying to this comment

Got in the way: Accumulated tech debt and complexity from easy early features.

… I (probably) still would have used CC heavily with benefit of hindsight but with a view that every seemingly “trivial” feature CC adds in the greenfield stage to be radioactive tech debt as the pile grows over time. Until reaching the point where CC starts being unable to comprehend its own work and I have to plan out tedious large scale refactors to get the codebase into a state approaching long term maintainability.