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A seasoned developer is tasked with exploring AI code assistants, specifically Claude, for a large, 20-year-old, messy legacy codebase. They note that while AI is good at some tasks, it struggles significantly with their 'unreasonable' code, contrasting with the 'reasonable' codebases often featured in demos. The core challenge is effectively integrating AI tools into such complex, aged systems.
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