AI changes the economics of software rewrites

Post by graypegg » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 2:22 PM UTC

graypegg wrote: post #82

ghost_pepper wrote: post #77

This website has four articles, once daily, three of which being AI crap and doomsaying (the fourth arguably too, it just doesn't say so), all with lines like: > A fast car doesn't win races — a driver does > the gap is not just speed - it's output quality > A rewrite isn't just an opportunity to modernise your technology stack - it's an opportunity [...] Garbage.

The "Written by hand." in the footer hurts my brain. If it is written using real thoughts and ideas formed by themselves, they've fully imbued their brain with that AI stank I guess. It really does FEEL like unedited LLM output. You can find a few smoking guns or em a few dashes, whatever. But every sentence is emanating the stank.

Post by yurishimo » Mon, Jul 13, 2026, 6:53 AM UTC

bigfishrunning wrote: post #78

yurishimo wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like you might work on a team with some agency to say no to management. We have some and sometimes marketing comes back with some extra revenue from a partner if we build out feature X Y or Z for their new product launch. The contracts are signed so engineering has to do it or we’re blamed for lost revenue. A few of those a year and you eventually end up in a similar situation.

> Sounds like you might work on a team with some agency to say no to management. If I didn't work on such a team, I would last exactly as long as it took me to find such a team.