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It already happened to a project at my work. Nobody understands enough of the code base and/or can make sense of it to be able to add features. It is the buggiest fucking thing ever, making LLM debugging an endless excersise of finding more bugs. This also means that we can’t prompt an LLM effectively to make targeted changes. The only thing left is letting an agent fuck shit up worse by running it with a vague prompt. We don’t know what to do. It did cost a lot to make after counting man hours and traditional software development mentality hates throwing something completely away.
It already happened to a project at my work. Nobody understands enough of the code base and/or can make sense of it to be able to add features. It is the buggiest fucking thing ever, making LLM debugging an endless excersise of finding more bugs. This also means that we can’t prompt an LLM effectively to make targeted changes. The only thing left is letting an agent fuck shit up worse by running it with a vague prompt. We don’t know what to do. It did cost a lot to make after counting man hours and traditional software development mentality hates throwing something completely away.