In early 2024, Alan Wells acquired a small SaaS business, a golf app with the intention of operating it independently. A veteran of engineering teams at Cruise and Uber, he had spent years building automated systems. This time, the goal was more straightforward: manage a modest software product and gradually improve it using AI tools.
Three months in, Wells hit a wall. The app’s codebase spanned more than 100,000 lines, lacked documentation, and made routine support queries a daily challenge. Then came a shift where large context language models capable of analyzing entire codebases at on
