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Large-scale legacy rewrites are now an affordable architectural option
◆ 85RelevanceOn a story from The New Stack0mo ago
Agents have fundamentally lowered the cost floor for massive codebase migrations and language shifts. You can now consider deep architectural pivots or performance optimizations that were previously too expensive to justify.
Takeaways
- Agents make massive technical debt payoffs economically viable for startups.
- Compare GitHub and Anthropic’s differing agent strategies for your own workflow.
- Architectural purity is now a realistic goal, not just a dream.
Read the original at thenewstack.io
GitHub and Anthropic used their own agents for major Rust rewrites — with very different playbooks
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