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by davidashe 663 days ago
If you have a backlog of 4500 “developer years” worth of upgrades, lack of AI wasn’t the problem, and making some attention nodes go brr cannot solve the root problem.

Java is a super verbose language, yet keeps getting written because “everyone knows java.” Has the cost of maintaining Java finally reached such critical mass that only an LLM can affordably maintain it?