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		cinntaile 18 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Welcome to Gas Town Tech debt isn't really the same anymore if it's relatively simple to regenerate an entire codebase from scratch.

paulryanrogers 18 days ago [–]

This assumes the regeneration is deterministic, or at least its output no worse than what it's replacing.

cinntaile 18 days ago | [–]

Yeah, the assumption is that it eventually will be the same or better. It's basically how this software was created, he seems to have made a few different versions before he was happy.

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