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Taikonerd | on: Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code
Does this one engineer have the domain knowledge to know WHY the old code was written the way it was, and what the graybeards would have done differently if they could start again now?

Otherwise he's just going to replicate all the legacy bugs and questionable design decisions.

greggh | parent | next
He doesnt need that when he has Ponytail https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail

Right? ...

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classified | parent | next
I have no doubts that there will also be new bugs.
koskokos | root | parent
the premise does sound a lot like written by someone who is looking for hype and not sounding credible
sleepyguy | parent
Looks like his startup was some kind of translation service. So yeah he is totally qualified. It's a miracle how Jeetu Patel was able to find Padmanabhan Krishnamurthy or even know that he was under employed languishing somewhere in the bowels of CISCO. I wonder if they know each other from India?
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