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> What's different today really is the LLMs and coding agents.

In Ladybird's case, tests they could rely upon.

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He's still right if you don't have good automated testing and you lost most of the original developers (or you don't have other seniors ceva familiar with the domain).
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Hah, yeah if you don't have a comprehensive test suite any rewrite will be a disaster - step one is to get the test suite up to code.
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