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osigurdsontoday at 4:22 AM1 replyview on HN

Maybe three days is enough for some code bases, but if you have millions of lines of code, agents aren't going to help you that much.


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i_am_a_peasanttoday at 4:21 PM

you don’t need to understand millions of lines of code to be effective at a job. you just need to identify the boundaries and the subsystems you need to touch. I’ve always only worked on huge codebases, and i tend to ramp up within the first 2 weeks at every job