Yes
It's still the best way to safely leverage AI when working on a large brownfield codebase in my experience
afro88 on Hacker News
In the thread “Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates”
Helped: Structured breakdown, human review, and explicit research/plan steps.
… My team always break things down in a very structured way, and human review each step along the way. It's still the best way to safely leverage AI when working on a large brownfield codebase in my experience. Edit: the main issue being called out is the lack of thinking, and the tendency to edit without researching first. …