Conventional Wisdom (1 blogmarks)

A rewrite is the thing that eventually gets tossed out as a potential solution for a challenging app. It sounds appealing, but if you've been doing this for a while, you know its way more work than it sounds. The conventional wisdom being, "A rewrite is (almost) never a silver bullet solution."

The math and economics of rewrites have been flipped with good LLM models and harnesses.

I wrote this in response to Jessica Kerr's post which asks:

Question for the world: Which fundamentals or deep lessons of 20 years of programming do we not need to pass on to the current generation of coders, who have never worked without AI?