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> it doesn’t matter because when you use LLMs to work on proprietary code, it has the code right there

The quality of the existing code base makes a huge difference. On a recent greenfield effort, Claude emitted an MVP that matched the design semantics, but the code was not up to standards. For example, it repeatedly loaded a large file into memory in different areas where it was needed (rather than loading once and passing a reference.)

However, after an early refactor, the subsequently generated code vastly improved. It honors the testing and performance paradigms, and it's so clean there's nothing for the linter to do.