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Extremely thorough and well written. I was hoping it’d end in a “so how much did this cost?” so that others team looking at similar migrations have an estimate

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• marcianx 3mo ago
  It's right there under "Stats": > 11 days (May 3 → merged May 14) · 6,778 commits > Pre-merge, this took 5.9 billion uncached input tokens, 690 million output tokens, and 72 billion cached input token reads — around $165,000 at API pricing. By hand, I think this would've taken 3 engineers with full context on the codebase about a year, during which time we wouldn't be able to improve Node.js compatibility, fix bugs, fix security issues or implement new features. We never would've done that. The realistic alternative was to do nothing and keep fixing the bugs at the top of this post forever.
• hdjrudni 3mo ago
  > I was hoping it’d end in a “so how much did this cost?” so that others team looking at similar migrations have an estimate on what they can expect It was in the middle. $165k.