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If you ask Claude to edit the feature, you've got a 50/50 shot on which one it chooses to target, even though feature ABC is now dead, unreachable code
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Got in the way: AI failed to clean up old code, creating duplicate modules.
… But it wasn't, so now the codebase has two nearly identical modules ABC and XYZ. If you ask Claude to edit the feature, you've got a 50/50 shot on which one it chooses to target, even though feature ABC is now dead, unreachable code. You might say that resolving the above issue is easy, but these inconsistencies become quite numerous and unsustainable in a codebase if you lean on AI too much, or aren't careful. …