French firm Clever nearly finishes rewriting 15 years of legacy in Rust with AI after 18 months
IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-08
A Clever engineer recounts how 18 months of skepticism gave way to an AI-driven rewrite of 15 years of legacy code in Rust, now nearly complete. In the Underscore podcast he describes industrializing AI at a tech company: convincing skeptical teams, accepting that the dev job has changed, and abandoning any single-tool mandate since the market moves too fast—teams now test and compare tools themselves.
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