> ask claude to come up with an entirely new version that fixes the tech debt/design issues you've identified?

I haven't tried that yet, so not sure.

Once upon a time I was at a company where the PRD specified that the product needs to have a toggle to enable a certain feature temporarily. Engineering implemented it literally, it worked perfectly. But it was vital to be able to disable the feature, which should've been obvious to anyone. Since the PRD didn't mention that, it was not implemented.

In that case, it was done as a protest. But AI is kind of like that, although out of sheer dumbness.

The story is meant to say that with AI it is imperative to be extremely prescriptive about everything, or things will go haywire. So doing a full rewrite will probably work well, only if you manage to have very tight test case coverage for absolutely everything. Which is pretty hard.