@trq212: this should be a huge update in your model of software engineering: rewrites can be good, cheap and fast of course most…

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A tweet arguing that software rewrites can be good, cheap, and fast, especially as AI models improve at filling testing and verification gaps.

this should be a huge update in your model of software engineering: rewrites can be good, cheap and fast of course most apps are not as testable and verifiable as Bun, but the models will continue to get better at filling those gaps
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this should be a huge update in your model of software engineering: rewrites can be good, cheap and fast

of course most apps are not as testable and verifiable as Bun, but the models will continue to get better at filling those gaps

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