Comment by reliabilityguy

> Doing both at once is much harder.

I think with sequential approach (translate -> make idiomatic) it is easier. However, I am not sure that monetary difference is going to be as stark as $165k vs 3 engineers/year. Especially, if you consider that no one knows that is what in the code at the end.

Sure, you can argue that now it doesn’t matter — agents and all that, but I am not so sure.