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Ask HN: What is your take on the importance of code quality when coding with AI?

2 points by maciejj ↗ HN
My feeling is that clean code, SOLID and a good project structure are even more important now than ever. Especially when you're building something long term, not just a prototype.

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curious1008
Agree. When I first started using AI to build projects I just let it do whatever it wanted. Turned out to be completely unmaintainable — everything was a black box.

The worst is when you find a bug, fix it, and then Claude Code starts spiraling — "this isn't right either", "actually let me change this part too", "wait no let me revert that" — just Clauding endlessly and making things worse.

Now I make it break everything into atomic changes. At least it's not a total black box anymore.