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Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding by gbalduzzi on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:41PM (#46876971)
> Single files in our codebase already blow the Copilot query token limit.

This tells more about your code quality that about copilot, and I'm not a fan of copilot

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Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding by neutronicus on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @03:52PM (#46877132)
I disagree.

Sure, it's a dumpster fire. But human engineers work on it just fine without investing man-decades into refactoring it into some shrine to the software engineer's craft.

The whole point of AI, in our parent company's eyes, is for no one to mention "code quality" as something impeding the delivery of features, yesterday, ever.

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Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding by SgtBastard on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @04:07PM (#46877311)
Claude, with a modicum of guidance from an engineer familiar with your monolith, could could write comprehensive unit tests of your existing system, then refactor it into coherent composable parts, in a day.

Not doing so while senior management demands the use of AI augmentation seems odd.

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Re:Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding by neutronicus on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @09:08PM (#46880511)
It's a 25-year-old CAD application written in very non-standard C++. I doubt it.

Certainly I have tried to accomplish tasks giving Claude guidance far outstripping "a modicum".

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