Claude Code excels 95% of the time in figuring the existing flows and functionality
thepra on Hacker News
95% of the time
In the thread “I am leaving the AI party after one drink”
Helped: Navigating vast context in large legacy codebases to identify issues.
Got in the way: Not ideal as a bootstrap mechanism for new projects.
… true for new projects, I've found that as a bootstrap mechanism it is not ideal, takes away your hard earned preferences/know-how abs leaves you barely engaged on the technical path. On the other side I already have quite big codebases, some legacy and inherited, there exist vast amount of context to work on and figure out stuff/fixes/bugs/improvements and Claude Code excels 95% of the time in figuring the existing flows and functionality, if a vague or precise issue is known that's facing some files elaborations or user work flows it can do a good job in pointing out what are, with a high chance, the issues.