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Yeah, and I'm explaining that the gap between theory and practice is greater in practice than it is in theory, and why LLMs make it worse.

It's easy to just say "just make the code better", but in reality I'm dealing with something that's an amalgam of the work of several hundred people, all the way back to the founders and whatever questionable choices they made lol.

The map is the territory here. Code is the result of our business processes and decisions and history.





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