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by jrvarela56 486 days ago
I would recommend everyone reading this to think of it as a skill issue. You can learn to use the LLM/agent to document your code base, test isolated components and refactor your spaghetti into modular chunks easily understandable by the agent.

The greenfield projects turn into a mess very quick because if you let it code without any guidance (wrt documentation, interactivity, testability, modularity) it generates crap until you can't modify it. The greenfield project turns into legacy as fast as the agent can spit out new code.

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> turns into legacy as fast as the agent can spit out new code.

This is an important point. Unconstrained code generation lets you witness accelerated codebase aging in real-time.