Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?
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Ask HN: How are you using AI code assistants on large messy legacy code bases?.
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My company is starting to explore AI coding.
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I am a dev with 20+ years of experience and I am tasked with trying to help see how we can use this tool to help our company.
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I have only used Claude so my experience is limited to that.As you might guess, I find AI to be extremely good at some things and actively terrible at others.
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A lot of the things I read and demos I watch all have to do with reasonable code bases.
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