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eesmith ◴[14 Nov 24 16:46 UTC] No.42138045[source]▶

> human experts should do the work of refactoring legacy code until genAI can operate on it smoothly

How does one determine if that's even possible, much less estimate the work involved to get there?

After all, 'subtle control flow, long-range dependencies, and unexpected patterns' do not always indicate tech-debt.

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1. svaha1728 ◴[14 Nov 24 17:41 UTC] No.42138805[source]▶

As long as you can constrain your solution to the logic contained inside a Todo app, all is golden /s

AI makes tech debt more expensive