I am getting a huge amount of value out of it for executing a bunch of large refactors and "modernization" of a (really) big legacy codebase at scale and in parallel
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Helped: Executing large refactors and modernization of legacy code in parallel.
Got in the way: Default verbose code style and unnecessary comments.
… generally unless you tell it not to, it does things in very verbose ways that most humans would never do, and since there's an infinite number of ways that it can invent absurd verbosity, it is hard to preemptively prompt against all of them. to be clear, I am getting a huge amount of value out of it for executing a bunch of large refactors and "modernization" of a (really) big legacy codebase at scale and in parallel. but it's not outputting the sort of code that I see when someone prompts it "build a new feature ...", and a big part of my prompts is screaming at it not to do certain things or to refuse the task if it at any point becomes unsure.