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Claude has been great for modernizing the codebase, updating dependencies, auditing security, and rapidly adding new features
teliskr on Hacker News
increased it from 65% to about +80%
In the thread “If AI coding is lowering your code quality, you're not managing quality right”
Helped: Modernizing legacy code, updating dependencies, and adding new features.
Got in the way: Sometimes it is a little off-track.
… The system is stable, but had issues as all legacy systems do. Claude has been great for modernizing the codebase, updating dependencies, auditing security, and rapidly adding new features. It has worked well with existing code style and patterns. …