[g947o]

Like other commenters already said, there are numerous ways they could have avoided/reduced the $500k/yr cost pre LLM, including simply paying someone to do port the code.

So I don't see there is any point in the article.

[hootz]

The point of the article is that that was his way to do it. To show that it is possible to save money with AI rewrites.

[g947o]

Then I have learned nothing new.

Since at least November 2022, everyone in the software industry knows that "it is possible to save money with AI rewrites".

I found nothing I don't already know from the article.

The only way this specific article gained attention is with the number in the headline.