[swiftcoder]

> Claude can write the code for you but it can’t understand it for you

Part of the problem is that Claude can go spelunking in a spaghetti codebase far faster than us humans. It doesn't necessarily help you understand the project, but if you farm that understanding out to Claude, you can keep working long after the codebase has become unusable for humans...

[pydry]

Ive often wondered what people do when the mess is so bad that Claude hits a wall and nothing works.

[archargelod]

Apparently, from what I usually see, they start a completely new project every couple of days. Some revibe their older projects from scratch, with "better" prompts (surely that was the problem).

[pydry]

can't do that with a project in production users are depending on