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Real question. Did anyone hear the term "seam" before Claude Code? What is he trying to say??

@adamgordonbell.bsky.social

It's from 'working effectively with legacy code'. The idea was if working with unmodularized code, with no tests, find the natural separation boundaries. The place where things can be force apart thru a natural interface. Then test at that seam, and replace functionally at that point.

Ryanne Dolan

@ry.codes

Interesting! Funny how Claude seems to generalize the idea to code IT JUST WROTE on the last turn lol.

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Adam Gordon Bell

@adamgordonbell.bsky.social

23 Aug

yeah, its calling its own code legacy code :) I assume the RL'd it on programming books and it over generalized it a bit. But its a good concept.