Yes
It was basically cost prohibitive to change anything significant until Claude became able to do most of the work for us
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Helped: Claude handling most work on old, hard-to-maintain codebase.
… We intentionally shrank our company down to auto-pilot mode and frankly don’t even have a working development environment anymore. It was basically cost prohibitive to change anything significant until Claude became able to do most of the work for us. My cofounder (also CTO of another startup in the interim) found himself with a lot of time on his hands unexpectedly and thought it would be a neat experiment and has been wowed by the results. …