No
The results were bad. We discovered a few interesting things, but most of the stuff was wrong
sdevonoes on Hacker News
In the thread “Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?”
Helped: Learning the codebase and gaining knowledge.
Got in the way: Most output was wrong, requiring manual diffing to verify.
… In my company we have tried using claude for exactly the same task you have. The results were bad. We discovered a few interesting things, but most of the stuff was wrong: we had to dif through the code base the old way to confidently accept/reject what Claude was telling us. So we could have save a lot of time and money simply by doing it ourselves. …