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AI changes the economics of software rewrites
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AI impacts economics by favoring codebases with clear, common patterns over proprietary or inconsistent systems. The quality of AI output for coding tasks relies on the model's training data and the context provided, primarily derived from the existing codebase.
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- Praise: Developing bespoke software solutions is now a lot cheaper than it used to be, making it a viable option for many businesses.
- Praise: Doing in days what used to take months feels like a game changer for the industry, revolutionizing how we approach software development.
- Concern: LLMs are quite bad at large scale pattern fidelity, leading to code that feels like a patch-on-patch-on-patch mess.
- Concern: A rewrite preserving all behavior without observable changes is a recipe for disaster; AI should not be trusted to make those decisions.
- Concern: AI-generated content often feels formulaic and lacks depth, pointing to limits on what it can ultimately achieve.