Comment by Mtinie
As I think more on how this could work, I’d treat the fully commented code as the source of truth (SOT).
1. SOT through a processor to strip comments and extra spaces. Publish to feature branch.
2. Point Claude at feature branch. Prompt for whatever changes you need. This runs against the minimalist feature branch. These changes will be committed with comments and readable spacing for the new code.
3. Verify code changes meet expectations.
4. Diff the changes from minimal version, and merge only that code into SOT.
Repeat.
Just test it, maybe you won't get a boost.
1. Run into a problem you and AI can't solve. 2. Drop all comments 3. Restart debug/design session 4. Solve it and save results 5. Revert code to have comments and put update in
If that still doesn't work: Step 2.5 drop all unrelated code from context