Lauren Tan proposes "time to rewrite" as a heuristic for agent-readiness
Original titlesomething I have been thinking about is a way to approximate how well you’ve setup your codebase for agents. think of it as a thought exp...
Lauren Tan (@poteto) proposes "time to (fully automated, hands-off) rewrite" (TTR) as a rough thought-experiment heuristic for how well a codebase is set up for agents.
She suggests asking how long a single engineer would need to rewrite the code in another language, framework, or architecture, since the answer surfaces gaps like missing verification that agents can use to confirm user-visible behavior matches.
The post also raises questions about whether a rewrite would improve, maintain, or regress performance and maintainability over time.
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