> The fastest moving and most effective organizations I've worked at are ones that focused on code quality from the beginning.
I agree with that in the pre-LLM world, but I don’t believe it’s the same today.
You can build something with “bad” code that works and is full of technical debt, but today paying this debt is getting cheaper and cheaper.
So if Claude’s wrong design decision leads to having to refactor several chunks of a codebase in order to implement a new feature, does it really matter if it’s Claude who is going to refactor it in a matter of seconds? Especially for a company like Anthropic which has a virtually unlimited number of tokens to spend on it.
I agree with that in the pre-LLM world, but I don’t believe it’s the same today.
You can build something with “bad” code that works and is full of technical debt, but today paying this debt is getting cheaper and cheaper.
So if Claude’s wrong design decision leads to having to refactor several chunks of a codebase in order to implement a new feature, does it really matter if it’s Claude who is going to refactor it in a matter of seconds? Especially for a company like Anthropic which has a virtually unlimited number of tokens to spend on it.