Joel Spolsky wrote that about "large scale commercial applications", which Monica definitely is not.

Can't help but notice that this line is not true anymore in 2026:

   > It’s harder to read code than to write it.

IIRC the monica team already did this between v1 and v2, so v2 to v3 as another rewrite would be the same move.

Written before LLMs made Big Rewrites an absolute doddle.

that made sense when people painstakingly typed out code by hand. Nowadays the code doesn't really matter and can be trivially thrown away and regenerated as needed.