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YesClaude, Codex · 5 May 2026

Just shit that would've taking years previously, is achievable in under a month

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10-20k LOC

In the thread “Agent Skills”, replying to this comment

Helped: Using agents to refactor messy legacy codebases and port storefronts.

Got in the way: Over-engineering skills with LLM junk or confusing rules.

… With the use of Claude / Codex I was able to port over the vast majority of the existing legacy storefront and laid the groundwork for centralizing the 10-20k LOC mega-controller logic over to reusable repo/service patterns. Just shit that would've taking years previously, is achievable in under a month.