Cutting edge AI agents would eat 10 MLOC for breakfast. That's a trivial workload, especially for a rewrite that's not intended to involve any new semantics.

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bluGill 5 hours ago | parent [-]

60% of the effort is testing to ensure it works correctly.

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zozbot234 5 hours ago | parent [-]

AI agents test their code too, that's how they ensure that they've got the right solution at the end of the day. With an existing implementation in C++ the task would be incredibly easy for them.

	▲	bluGill 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You have far too much trust in automated tests.