No
your codebase is impossible to work out for a human
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In the thread “2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026”, replying to this comment
Helped: Planning with high settings and specific architecture instructions.
Got in the way: LLM failed to reuse code and created unreadable, duplicate code.
… stopping and rethinking the approach. After a few passes of that, with duplicate code with no underlying coherent vision, hundred of thousands of lines of documentation written as walls of text in markdown and weird coding decisions, your codebase is impossible to work out for a human. I use Claude Opus 5 at high to plan, Claude Opus 5 at low to execute the plan. …