I agree that the comment is insightful, but I don’t think AI companies are particularly promoting rewrites, other than that it’s a task LLMs are good at as “the code is the spec”.

The industry as a whole still is realizing that any LLM usage that actually writes all the code for you is causing cognitive debt, and we’re even slowly losing our skills of the art.

I’m trying my best to navigate this myself, but no matter what we do, using LLMs is both a blessing and a curse.