Mist of human written codebases are unusable for llm dev by that definition.
replyTurns out that if they're unusable by LLMs they're likely unusable by human devs. If you follow sane clean coding principles (like not having godclasses) it turns out coding agents (and humans!) can understand and navigate your codebase, especially if you use recognizable patterns, even with very light documentation.
replyOne of these days you’ll learn about “enterprise” code
replyI have seen good enterprise code and bad enterprise code. Clean Code suggests progressive rewriting of bad code.
replyWhen you touch a file you have an opportunity for code clean up, add unit tests to ensure your changes break nothing, and refine the code.
We judge long-term quality of human codebases (at least OS) by ongoing activity; for LLM codebases maybe a consistent or increasing level of activity is a bad smell?
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