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threethirtytwotoday at 4:45 PM1 replyview on HN

Well here's the million dollar question. It's a maintenance dead end for humans to read and edit. But for an LLM, is it a maintenance deadend? Could the LLM iterate on that same code base and be highly effective on it?


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hollowturtletoday at 4:48 PM

Yes it is a maintenance deadend for LLMs it's notorious codebases start accumulating enormous amount of tech debt and that it gets almost impossible to unravel it even with the best agent

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