alt Hacker NewsWonder if the real value of LLMs/AI is similar to microservices in that it solves an organisational/culture problem.
In this case AI allowed the developer to make a change that the organisation would not have allowed. Regular rewrites don't let you signal to investors that you are AI ready/ascendant/agentic (whatever the latest AI hype term is) so would have been blocked. But, an AI rewrite.
If the only thing LLMs did was clear enterprise technical debt backlogs, the end consumer would still benefit from the technology.