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Re:Show HN: I've asked Claude to improve codebase quality 20... by jessoteric on Thursday December 11, 2025 @03:16PM (#46236567)
IME this has been significantly reduced in newer models like 4.5 Opus and to a lesser extent Sonnet, but agree it's still sort of bad- mainly because the question you're posing is bad.

if you ask a human this the answer can also often be "yes [if we torture the library]", because software development is magic and magic is the realm of imagination.

much better prompt: "is this library designed to solve this problem" or "how can we solve this problem? i am considering using this library to do so, is that realistic?"

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