points by simonask 1 day ago | 0 comments
You could already do all of that. Like, none of that is infeasible to achieve on a scale of weeks in most cases.
It’ll still take weeks with AI in the picture, but for some reason management is more willing to plan it when they also have the additional token bills to pay.
Now, you can make enough progress with one developer’s quiet afternoon to be confident and finishing the work also takes less time.
The technical grasp of the legacy codebase was a factor, but often not the largest.