In my experience this has an obvious answer (yes). LLM’s yes-and whatever patterns are present in the code base no matter how insane. If you don’t tend to your code garden it will be overcome with weeds in an instant.
At work we had largely moved off of some old hardware but kept partial support for it in the code because normally that would be zero cost. But the constant overhead of bullying, bribing, and threatening the LLMs to leave that code alone was way more work than just excising it and reimplementing it if needed.
At work we had largely moved off of some old hardware but kept partial support for it in the code because normally that would be zero cost. But the constant overhead of bullying, bribing, and threatening the LLMs to leave that code alone was way more work than just excising it and reimplementing it if needed.