Yes
It took me only 10 days to have a functioning equivalent, in 10K lines of code
plumefar on Hacker News
10 days to rewrite 20-30 year of a few persons
In the thread “Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?”
Helped: Reverse engineering legacy code and rewriting with modern frameworks.
… So I used Claude and Gemini to reverse engineer the codebase, extract the core ideas, and rewrite it from scratch with modern frameworks (with guidance from the original authors) It took me only 10 days to have a functioning equivalent, in 10K lines of code (using many libraries that did not exist in the 90s and 00s), which I find much easier to understand, even though I wrote none of it myself. 10 days to rewrite 20-30 year of a few persons. …