alt Hacker NewsThe cost of reverting the commits and starting over is not so high though. I find it is really good for prototyping ideas that you might not have tried to do previously.
The cost of reverting the commits and starting over is not so high though. I find it is really good for prototyping ideas that you might not have tried to do previously.
It's cheap only if this happens shortly after the bad design mistakes, and there aren't other changes on top of them. Bad design decisions ossify fairly quickly in larger projects with multiple contributors outputting large volumes of code. Claude Code's own "game engine" rendering pipeline[1] is a good example of an almost comically inappropriate design that's likely to be some work to undo now that it's set.
[1] https://spader.zone/engine/