Senior Dev Questions New Hire's Plan to Port Codebase with Claude
lemire · x · 2026-08-14
A senior developer posts that a new hire, with little programming experience, proposes using Claude to port the entire codebase to a new language and hand it to AI loops. The author wonders why he hasn't heard this story and if it's happening.
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