When you see some legacy C++ codebase with millions of lines of code, catching cancer and slowly dying from it is more human than trying to unscrew that mess.

A really screwed code base blows out your context window and just starts burning tokens as the AI works out a way to kill -9 itself to escape the hell you're subjecting it to.

While I mostly agree - science is built up on truths. Code has a large amount of creativity and freedom built into the decisions, some codebases will be documented, follow rigorous training, and design decisions. Others will just be an absolute legacy mess of 20 years of odd decisions made by people who may have not known what they were doing. Like an art piece that you don’t really “understand”.

No but it can be a rube goldberg machine of insanity