I’ve successfully done exactly what is described. You have to actually implement discipline yes. That’s the key hard part.
replyHowever provided you stick to the discipline, it’s robust e2e TDD’d versioned worked through CI and in production
You get out of all these tools what you put in
Any non-trivial project done at scale for any realistic duration won't work with this procedure.
replyJust consider this for a minute. If re-writes were so trivial, we would be re-writing software all of the time, even before LLMs. It is the fear of losing all the legacy additions that stop us from doing it.
Any competent senior engineer has done a major refactor or manual rebase-prune merge so it’s not like its a rare event.
replyYou just have to have discipline and be prepared to to do the plumbing correctly so that you think ahead of the future dependencies etc… its just doing real engineering
> a major refactor
replyLooks like a change of goalposts.