I used Claude to document, in great detail, a 500k-line codebase in about an hour of well-directed prompts. Just fully explained it, how it all worked, how to get started working on it locally, the nuance of the old code, pathways, deployments using salt-stack to AWS, etc.
I don't think the moat of "future developers won't understand the codebase" exists anymore.
This works well for devs who write their codebase using React, etc., and also the ones rolling their own JavaScript (of which I personally prefer).
I don't think the moat of "future developers won't understand the codebase" exists anymore.
This works well for devs who write their codebase using React, etc., and also the ones rolling their own JavaScript (of which I personally prefer).