My project became so big that claude can't properly understand it {Question}| So, I made a project in python entirely using Cursor (composer) and Claude, but it has gotten to a point that the whole codebase is over 30 Python files, code is super disorganized, might even have duplicate loops, and Claude keeps forgetting basic stuff like imports at this point. When I ask it to optimize the code or to fix a bug, it doesn’t even recognize the main issue and just ends up deleting random lines or breaking everything completely. I have 0 knowledge about python, it's actually a miracle i got this far with the project, but now it's almost impossible to keep track of things, what do i do? already tried using cursor rules but doesn't seem to work. Edit: My post made it to YouTube! I hope this serves as a historical reminder that having at least some knowledge is still totally necessary, go study, AI is supposed to assist you, don’t let your projects end up like this. As for the project, it was just a hobby project, I managed to make it work perfectly and fix some issues by simply improving the context, like providing the files to edit directly and some source code, etc. but i couldn't get rid of the duplicated stuff. Anyway, don't do this for serious projects please (not knowing what it does), if it's an actual job don't be lazy, just check everything and be careful :) If you wanna learn just ask AI to explain what it's changing, how the code works and stuff like that.

My project became so big that claude can't properly understand it {Question}| So, I made a project in python entirely using Cursor (composer) and Claude, but it has gotten to a point that the whole codebase is over 30 Python files, code is super disorganized, might even have duplicate loops, and Claude keeps forgetting basic stuff like imports at this point. When I ask it to optimize the code or to fix a bug, it doesn’t even recognize the main issue and just ends up deleting random lines or breaking everything completely. I have 0 knowledge about python, it's actually a miracle i got this far with the project, but now it's almost impossible to keep track of things, what do i do? already tried using cursor rules but doesn't seem to work. Edit: My post made it to YouTube! I hope this serves as a historical reminder that having at least some knowledge is still totally necessary, go study, AI is supposed to assist you, don’t let your projects end up like this. As for the project, it was just a hobby project, I managed to make it work perfectly and fix some issues by simply improving the context, like providing the files to edit directly and some source code, etc. but i couldn't get rid of the duplicated stuff. Anyway, don't do this for serious projects please (not knowing what it does), if it's an actual job don't be lazy, just check everything and be careful :) If you wanna learn just ask AI to explain what it's changing, how the code works and stuff like that.
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