Steve Yegge
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592 appearances
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 26 Dec
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Never rewrite your code.
And now we've discovered that.
It is for a larger and larger and larger class of piece of bodies of code, it is better to just start over and rewrite it from scratch than it is to try to fix it.
The LLM will do a better job.
I first noticed this when I was trying to port all of my unit tests from one architecture to another.
And eventually I was just go, oh God, just the iteration because they're trying to fix.
So there's a lot to keep in hand.
But instead, if you say throw all the tests out and make them again, it just goes and you're done.
Right?
And so it's like
Hmm, hm, well what about this library I gotta refactor?
And so it's creeping up, but we're moving into a world where uh the fastest thing to do is just build new code that does a better job of what the old code was trying to do.
I mean it's like we're unlearning everything.
I feel like an ups upside down land, but this is but it's like we've entered quantum mechanics.
But you have to you have to embrace this new world.
Yeah, I've done I've done assembly language for five years, you know?
Yeah.
operating systems in assembly language.
Um and it was eighty eighty eighty eighty six, not even F eighty X eighty six because I had eight bit registers.
I've done it all.
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