Really valuable rundown of what's actually working in production. CodeRabbit catching issues before they land is huge—feels like the PR feedback loop I wish I'd had earlier in my career. Taskmaster sounds promising for breaking down product specs into actual dev work, that handoff is always messy. Curious how Claude compares to Gemini 3 for you on complex refactoring tasks, not just new features
Glad you found it helpful! Because I’m working with early stage startups a lot of the work I’m involved in is greenfield, so there’s been less of the complex refactoring tasks so far. I’m writing an article for LeadDev at the moment about using LLMs for more legacy codebases, I’ll share when it comes out
Really valuable rundown of what's actually working in production. CodeRabbit catching issues before they land is huge—feels like the PR feedback loop I wish I'd had earlier in my career. Taskmaster sounds promising for breaking down product specs into actual dev work, that handoff is always messy. Curious how Claude compares to Gemini 3 for you on complex refactoring tasks, not just new features
Glad you found it helpful! Because I’m working with early stage startups a lot of the work I’m involved in is greenfield, so there’s been less of the complex refactoring tasks so far. I’m writing an article for LeadDev at the moment about using LLMs for more legacy codebases, I’ll share when it comes out