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Re:Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 20... by nottorp on Thursday December 11, 2025 @11:55AM (#46233841)
Just be careful if functionality varies between library y version 2 and library y version 3, or if there is a similarly named library y2 that isn't the same.

You may get possibilities, but not for what you asked for.

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Re:Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 20... by pdntspa on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:16PM (#46234122)
If you run to the point where you can execute each idea and examine its outputs, problems like that surface pretty quickly
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Re:Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 20... by nottorp on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:27PM (#46234301)
Of course, by that time i could have read the docs for library y the version I'm using...
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Re:Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 20... by pdntspa on Thursday December 11, 2025 @12:39PM (#46234467)
There are many roads to Rome...
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