> Do they actually budget over a billion dollars to upgrade Java versions, or is this like "this amazing tool, sed, saved us infinity developer years by replaci

> Do they actually budget over a billion dollars to upgrade Java versions, or is this like "this amazing tool, sed, saved us infinity developer years by replacing strings at one quadrillionth the cost of a $500k human editing each text file by hand" I think it was more like this: “We need to upgrade Java at some point.” “That would take thousands of hours and a billion dollars.” “Ok, forget it for now then.” “Well, we could try to automate it with an LLM…”