I'm having Claude Code assist me in a major refactor of Apollo. The plan is to break it up into a few smaller modules: apollo-core, apollo-doobie, and apollo-http4s. Claude produced a PR quickly enough. The challenge: how do I, the senior engineer, know that Claude's code works? It's a huge PR that touches the entire project, surely you can't just trust the LLM. At least not yet. So: I set about to update the Apollo giter8 template to use the refactored version of Apollo. Note to self: yes, you need automated tests. Claude Code was less reliable here, but I ended up getting everything I needed from Tertulia and produced a working version. Next steps: I think the Claude PR is safe to merge, but with some caveats associated with the build system. Still, I think the safe thing to do is to copy a clean version into Tertulia's monorepo first, make sure everything works, then mint a new version. Once Tertulia's happy with the refactor... I'm pushing to Maven Central! And once that's done, I'll pull Tertulia off the monorepo to become Apollo's first user.
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