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Referencing Joel Spolsky's article about how you should never do a rewrite is starting to feel outdated as well.
by lopatin 12d ago
Referencing Joel Spolsky's article about how you should never do a rewrite is starting to feel outdated as well.
- tra3 12d agoI think it's worth more scrutiny today, rather than less. Your claude code can barf out "a rewrite" but is it any good? So far the answer is "no" (see anthropic's C compiler, or a more recent port of bun). Software is still the best specification for existing behavior..
- lopatin 12d agoI'm not following because a) The bun rewrite was a success b) the C compiler wasn't a rewrite and c) "Software is still the best specification for existing behavior" seems to imply that rewrites are achievable because we already have a working version that functions as a spec?