Comment by simonask
19 hours ago
You could already do all of that. Like, none of that is infeasible to achieve on a scale of weeks in most cases.
It’ll still take weeks with AI in the picture, but for some reason management is more willing to plan it when they also have the additional token bills to pay.
It was often not organizationally feasible because you needed permission to spend those weeks up front, instead of working on something else, just to get to where you knew enough to give approval to finish the work.
Now, you can make enough progress with one developer’s quiet afternoon to be confident and finishing the work also takes less time.
The technical grasp of the legacy codebase was a factor, but often not the largest.