Comment by neutronicus 7 hours ago
For a certain-size project it really is not.
Single files in our codebase already blow the Copilot query token limit.
Great, Anthropic taught Claude to grep. On our project, it's still useless because it can't use the semantic search in the IDE.
I disagree.
Sure, it's a dumpster fire. But human engineers work on it just fine without investing man-decades into refactoring it into some shrine to the software engineer's craft.
The whole point of AI, in our parent company's eyes, is for no one to mention "code quality" as something impeding the delivery of features, yesterday, ever.
Claude, with a modicum of guidance from an engineer familiar with your monolith, could could write comprehensive unit tests of your existing system, then refactor it into coherent composable parts, in a day.
Not doing so while senior management demands the use of AI augmentation seems odd.
It's a 25-year-old CAD application written in very non-standard C++. I doubt it.
Certainly I have tried to accomplish tasks giving Claude guidance far outstripping "a modicum".
> Single files in our codebase already blow the Copilot query token limit.
This tells more about your code quality that about copilot, and I'm not a fan of copilot