alt Hacker News> One does often hear that where LLMs shine is with greenfield code generation but they all start to struggle working with pre-existing code.
Don't we all?
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AlecSchueler • yesterday at 11:33 AM
Whether we do or not it's besides the point. The comparison was between Claude, which produced competent greenfield code, and Gemini which struggled with brownfield. The comparison is stacked in Claude's favour.
seba_dos1 • yesterday at 10:27 AM
Nope.
I'm better at pre-existing code, if only because empty text files give me writers block.