
coldtake.dev
August 29, 2026
9 min read
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Summary
I've been using LLMs heavily in the last years in coding, or more generally, in software engineering. I watched many times what productivity boost I could gain from it, and I used LLMs in more and more of my projects. It works well in greenfield projects, and small ones. The reality is that in day to day work we need to introduce agents into legacy codebases with heavy dependency trees, strong cou...