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by bulbar 41 days ago
Will work just as good as today or 20 years ago.
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cortesoft 41 days ago
Are you suggesting AI coding was as good 20 years ago as it is today?
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hrldcpr 41 days ago
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 41 days ago
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 41 days ago
It sure wrote less crappy code.
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