Re:Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 20...
by xnorswap on Thursday December 11, 2025 @11:35AM
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Unironically I agree.
One under-discussed lever that senior / principal engineers can pull is the ability to write linters & analyzers that will stop junior engineers ( or LLMs ) from doing something stupid that's specific to your domain.
Let's say you don't want people to make async calls while owning a particular global resource, it only takes a few minutes to write an analyzer that will prevent anyone from doing so.
Avoid hours of back-and-forth over code review by encoding your preferences and taste into your build pipeline and stop it at source.
One under-discussed lever that senior / principal engineers can pull is the ability to write linters & analyzers that will stop junior engineers ( or LLMs ) from doing something stupid that's specific to your domain.
Let's say you don't want people to make async calls while owning a particular global resource, it only takes a few minutes to write an analyzer that will prevent anyone from doing so.
Avoid hours of back-and-forth over code review by encoding your preferences and taste into your build pipeline and stop it at source.