Claude often makes a hash of our legacy code and then i go look at what we had there before it started and think “i don’t even know what i was thinking, why is this even here?

I have been laboriously going through the process of adding documentation and comments in code explaining the purpose and all the interfaces we expect and adding tests for the purpose of making it easier for claude to work with it but it also makes it easier for me to work with it. Claude often makes a hash of our legacy code and then i go look at what we had there before it started and think “i don’t even know what i was thinking, why is this even here?”