Once had a coworker write a long proposal to rewrite some big old application from Python to Go. I threw in a single comment: why don't we use the existing code

Once had a coworker write a long proposal to rewrite some big old application from Python to Go. I threw in a single comment: why don't we use the existing code as a separate executable? Turns out he was laid off and my suggestion was used. (Okay, I'm being silly, the layoff was a coincidence)