One week with Claude Code on a legacy codebase

If anything, I welcome our new AI overlords. They bring joy to my life of a software engineer. Claude Code is great, but with some asterisks. Git and pull requests Claude is amazing with terminal, and that includes Git. Combined with the GitHub CLI gh tool, Claude knows how to check for recent changes, write a great commit message, push changes, and if that fails, rebase your changes. Then, create…