Comment by jillesvangurp

Translating software that has a lot of tests is easy for LLMs. I think we'll be seeing a lot more of that in the next years. But it will take some time for people to build up more trust in these tools. Good test harnesses are a key enabler.

The inevitable cleanup that will follow this could be done the same way. Refactoring like that can be done in more bite sized chunks, which makes it easier to review what is happening and control how it is done.