Comment by solid_fuel

I can't ignore how much this sounds like Stockton Rush.

> "Apparently if you build a submersible with carbon fiber you are a witch and need to be burned on a stake. But look we're making reliable trips down to the Titanic with no problems."

Realistically, this is a forum of experienced engineers watching a company make some extremely questionable but very flashy engineering decisions. There's going to be a lot of people standing around here going "gee I dunno, that seems questionable".

Personally, I think the rewrite will largely work - logically, direct translations from one language to another are pretty well within the realm of the few things LLMs should perform extremely well at. But I also think more information will come out showing this was much more bespoke than just prompting an agent to do the translation. This just feels too much like an ad for Anthropic, I think it's likely there was a lot more human involvement and planning than we are being told.