Comment by miyoji
15 hours ago
> Another issue with looking at code, is that it's very hard to manually change things anyway. I can't just change a variable from 10 to 20, because I don't know where it is used.
This should be a giant flashing red light. If you can't figure this out, either 1) you're too junior to be effective using AI, or 2) the AI is doing a truly awful job organizing the codebase. In either case, it's a sign to slow things down and understand what's happening before proceeding.
No, the problem is not the code.
Is that that variable might be used in tests, UI, docs, agenr markdown files, other related projects too.
The design spec could say "always use 10px margin", then in code we have a const with value 10 used everywhere. If we update 10 manually in code to 20, then the design spec is now outdated.