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YesClaude, Cursor · 15 Mar 2026

Claude and Cursor have done a wonderful job of helping me understand the implement new features in this gigantic codebase

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In the thread “Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?”, replying to this comment

Helped: Understanding and implementing new features in a large codebase.

I work at a company that maintains one of the largest Rails codebases in the world (their claim, but believable). My experience has been the opposite - Claude and Cursor have done a wonderful job of helping me understand the implement new features in this gigantic codebase. I actually found out through AI that while I enjoy writing code, I enjoy building great software better, the coding was just a means to the end.