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Re:Switch to Claude without starting over by jacquesm on Sunday March 01, 2026 @05:05AM (#47205323)
> One does often hear that where LLMs shine is with greenfield code generation but they all start to struggle working with pre-existing code.

Don't we all?

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Re:Switch to Claude without starting over by AlecSchueler on Sunday March 01, 2026 @06:33AM (#47205807)
Whether we do or not it's besides the point. The comparison was between Claude, which produced competent greenfield code, and Gemini which struggled with brownfield. The comparison is stacked in Claude's favour.
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Re:Switch to Claude without starting over by seba_dos1 on Sunday March 01, 2026 @05:27AM (#47205462)
Nope.
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Re:Switch to Claude without starting over by astrange on Sunday March 01, 2026 @03:09PM (#47210189)
I'm better at pre-existing code, if only because empty text files give me writers block.
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