Is there something about an LLM that makes it incapable of simplifying a codebase? I have only seen that the slop jockeys who wield LLMs most ardently don't seem to care about that, and that older models were worse at everything, including that.
I try this really hard but it seems that getting an LLM to simplify a code base meaningfully is a much harder problem than getting it to output mostly functioning features very quickly.
They are great at adding but reducing takes much more hand-holding in my experience. Maybe this will improve, maybe it does not matter, maybe I am holding it wrong, I don't know.
They are great at adding but reducing takes much more hand-holding in my experience. Maybe this will improve, maybe it does not matter, maybe I am holding it wrong, I don't know.