AI Agents Kill the Codebase Learning Curve: Mastering 10-Year Projects in Hours
haltakov · x · 2026-08-06
A developer shared a real-world experience using AI agents, highlighting how they drastically reduce the onboarding time for complex codebases. Faced with a client's massive project built over 10+ years by hundreds of people, the developer grasped key concepts and became productive in just a few hours by asking Claude questions.
This represents a significant shift in developer workflows, turning a task that traditionally took weeks into a matter of hours.
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