Post #3087654
2026-04-03 00:27 UTC
6. Accretion vs modification is moot if you have sufficient functional tests. Do you have sufficient functional tests? I can't tell you that (and neither can an LLM), thanks to Rice's theorem.
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@chrisjrn@social.coop 2026-04-03 15:29
(LATER) 7. I left some conclusions to this thread implicit: i) A "crisis of maintenance" means that reimplementation _is_ going to become more desirable. ii) The second-order costs of full reimplementations are well-known to us (hint: they aren't in re-writing the code).