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An AI tool can both navigate a legacy codebase and help explain it to you successfully currently, right now, if you're doing it correctly.

I've contracted some of this understanding of pieces/intellectual work out to Claude code many, many times successfully.

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Yes it’s definitely possible now. My point was that people need to move past “vibe coding” to using the AI as what it should be, an assistant

I don't think people are realistically "vibe coding" production apps. You see a lot of hype, and I'm sure there is growing number of people without software development skills using Claude Code, but those are not the people writing important software. Even the people from Anthropic encourage programmers to first use CC as analytics/research tool, not for writing code. Once you get a feel what it can do, you will feel comfortable feeding it chunks of work you want to delegate, but realistically never more than you can review. Yes, you can ask it to build the next Instagram, but you will very quickly find out it's not going to work.

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