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MixedClaude · 6 Oct 2026

But making changes in messy, mostly human-written mature codebases is still a minefield

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Helped: Greenfield projects where LLM writes code from scratch.

Got in the way: Modifying messy, human-written mature codebases.

… For sure I happily vibecode stuff without worrying about it when it's a greenfield project, and if the LLM has written it entirely from scratch then usually it's well structured and sane. But making changes in messy, mostly human-written mature codebases is still a minefield.