alt Hacker Newsdo those rewrites really need to be done still? what are you gaining?
In the old days we rewrote for a gain in productivity by humans or a gain in performance which resulted in non-trivial dollars. If AI is writing and testing the code, what benefits are you getting from the rewrite?
> what are you gaining
Fixing performance bottlenecks caused by bad architecture. Fixing bad architecture so that we can ship even faster in the future.