Yes
The difference is that AI made it possible to do it at practically zero cost in terms of engineering time and money compared with the alternatives
nharziro on Hacker News
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In the thread “AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up”, replying to this comment
Helped: Deep domain expertise and comprehensive existing end-to-end test suite.
… We absolutely could have. The difference is that AI made it possible to do it at practically zero cost in terms of engineering time and money compared with the alternatives. We had wanted to move away from WebForms for years, but with the size of our team and the constant stream of new feature requests, there was never a realistic opportunity to stop development for months and focus on a rewrite. …