Pitfall: Don't Use Legacy Code as the Spec for Claude Refactoring
arekusandr_ · x · 2026-08-10
The author shares a crucial tip for refactoring code with Claude: never use your legacy codebase as the specification.
If you feed the old code directly to the model, it will likely generate a slightly cleaner implementation that still perfectly replicates all the original baseline mistakes and flawed logic.
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