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Re:6 Weeks of Claude Code by nosianu on Sunday August 03, 2025 @06:28AM (#44775549)
This ignores a bunch of higher level and long-term concepts like maintenance, complexity and extensibility.

With only "it works" you end up like this (iconic HN comment on Oracle codebase): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18442637

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Re:6 Weeks of Claude Code by wredcoll on Sunday August 03, 2025 @01:24PM (#44778130)
Yes, my point is that you don't even have "it compiles" as a way to measure a code review. Maybe you did a great job, maybe you did a terrible job, how do you tell?
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