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Comment by Xenoamorphous

6 hours ago

> we’re approaching $800k in money spent on this rewrite.

That’s peanuts, if not the shells of the peanuts, for a project and company of this magnitude

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_pdp_  6 hours ago

How does that help 99.9% of all other companies though?

  • Xenoamorphous  6 hours ago

    Some thoughts:

    - just because it doesn’t help 99.9% of the companies today it doesn’t mean it won’t help them tomorrow

    - 0.01% of the companies employ a much bigger percentage of people

    - 99.9% of companies won’t need to do a project of this magnitude

    • jraph  2 hours ago

      This rewrite is showcased by Anthropic to sell AI rewrites to other companies.

      If it turns out the rewrite cost stupid amounts of money and leads to a bad outcome, it's just a misleading ad.

      We developers now need to explain that to illuminated management and colleagues.

    • nevertoolate  5 hours ago

      So you think if a company can't spend 1 million USD on a rewrite which has almost zero impact on performance, possibly net negative on maintainability it also can't have 500k LOC codebase either? Oh come on...