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Cisco gives 27-year-old engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite 98% of the company's legacy code in 24 months — president plucks former startup founder, telling him to 'go nuts'. (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

I've always thought that reverse engineering should have a counterpart. Reverse specification.

Or taking a working system and figuring out what it was designed to do and how. Then writing tests to that so that real world testing is not mandatory.

This is horrendously difficult, since I've never knew anyone achieving a successful codebase rewrite.