Re:AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
by Ajedi32 on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @09:57AM
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It's simply not realistic to expect the entire world rewrite its entire technology stack from scratch, starting at the transistor level on up every time there's a new industry innovation in security or performance.
LLMs might make this somewhat easier, but you're still going to have to deal with backwards compatibility and legacy systems.
LLMs might make this somewhat easier, but you're still going to have to deal with backwards compatibility and legacy systems.