Original Reddit post

Lots of threads lately about companies losing track of their codebase and each change/iteration becomes super expensive and the slop just keeps growing, but at this point there’s not much that can be done about it. Makes sense… But, I was wondering whether it’s a viable strategy to just keep creating technical debt and build black box apps without understanding the codebase, in hopes that… let’s call it Opus 8 can just be told to “Read entire codebase and consolidate all the slop, extra helpers, and anything that’s unnecessary”. Do you think that’s a realistic scenario? Curious to hear thoughts submitted by /u/Dennisaryu

Originally posted by u/Dennisaryu on r/ClaudeCode