You Inherited a Codebase Nobody Understands: The Archaeology Pass, Claim by Claim
The README describes a system that no longer exists You inherit a legacy repo. The README is confident, detailed, and wrong: it describes a system that no longer exists. So you send an AI in to explore, and it comes back confident too, with a tidy map of modules, entry points, and data flows. Some…
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- 2026-11-09 12:24 · DEV Community — AI
You Inherited a Codebase Nobody Understands: The Archaeology Pass, Claim by Claim