Akhund: AI coding tools struggle on large, interconnected codebases
Immad Akhund · Immad Akhund (Mercury) on Fintech, AI and What's Next · Mar 28, 2025 · at 15:30
Immad Akhund, CEO and co-founder of Mercury, discusses the reality of AI-assisted engineering productivity across Mercury's Haskell codebase versus greenfield development.
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“Engineering productivity. I haven't seen as much of a boost as I would like to see. I think it's really good for making an app from scratch. When you have a huge code base with, that's all interlinked, it's just not as good. And we also built in like a weird programming language, Haskell which has been great, amazing engineers, but I think a lot of these kind of coding LLMs are not trained on Haskell as well.”
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