> we’re approaching $800k in money spent on this rewrite.
That’s peanuts, if not the shells of the peanuts, for a project and company of this magnitude
> we’re approaching $800k in money spent on this rewrite.
That’s peanuts, if not the shells of the peanuts, for a project and company of this magnitude
How does that help 99.9% of all other companies though?
Some thoughts:
- just because it doesn’t help 99.9% of the companies today it doesn’t mean it won’t help them tomorrow
- 0.01% of the companies employ a much bigger percentage of people
- 99.9% of companies won’t need to do a project of this magnitude
This rewrite is showcased by Anthropic to sell AI rewrites to other companies.
If it turns out the rewrite cost stupid amounts of money and leads to a bad outcome, it's just a misleading ad.
We developers now need to explain that to illuminated management and colleagues.
So you think if a company can't spend 1 million USD on a rewrite which has almost zero impact on performance, possibly net negative on maintainability it also can't have 500k LOC codebase either? Oh come on...
Ohhhhh for a world where that's peanuts for an open source project.