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by everforward 328 days ago
The prompts used to generate it might serve as a list of requirements, which would be helpful. If the codebase is an utter mess, rebuilding the app from prompts would be an option.

I have no idea whether these sorts of projects would be a rewrite or just tidying up, though. I haven't seen what happens when people with no coding experience prompt these. The code I've seen devs get LLMs to generate is usually okay enough to maintain. Not ideal, but workable.