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using it at work on our massive legacy codebase is only marginally faster than doing it by hand
sarchertech on Hacker News
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In the thread “Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide”, replying to this comment
Helped: Creating a simple game for a child quickly.
Got in the way: Working on a massive legacy codebase at work.
… Even with agents, you start seeing massive slowdowns with code base size. It’s why I can nearly one shot a simple game for my kid in 20 minutes with Claude, but using it at work on our massive legacy codebase is only marginally faster than doing it by hand.