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cortesoft
21 hours ago
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hrldcpr
21 hours ago
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I think they're being sarcastic, saying that rewrites from scratch have rarely worked well (whether done by AI or humans).
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bulbar
9 hours ago
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Exactly. Sorry for not being explicit about it. I thought it was clear enough, because 'this code is crap, let's just rewrite the whole thing, doesn't look to hard' is kind of famous for being a bad idea most of the time since forever.
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vrganj
20 hours ago
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It sure wrote less crappy code.
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