I successfully use Claude Code in a large complex codebase. It's Clojure, perhaps that helps (Clojure is very concise, expressive and hence token-dense).

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culi 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Perhaps it's harder to "do Closure wrong" than it is to do JavaScript or Python or whatever other extremely flexible multi-paradigm high-level language

	▲	wcedmisten 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Having spent 3 years of my career working with Clojure, I think it actually gives you even more rope to shoot yourself with than Python/JS. E.g. macros exist in Clojure but not Python/JS, and I've definitely been plenty stumped by seeing them in the codebase. They tend to be used in very "clever" patterns. On the other hand, I'm a bit surprised Claude can tackle a complex Clojure codebase. It's been a while since I attempted using an LLM for Clojure, but at the time it failed completely (I think because there is relatively little training data compared to other mainstream languages). I'll have to check that out myself