What's in a codebase?

Originally posted 2026-03-23 Tagged: llms , strategy , software engineering , popular ⭐️ Does it ever make sense to rewrite your codebase from scratch? For decades, the answer had been an unambiguous no, ever since Joel Spolsky argued that rewrites were the “single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make” . In the era of coding agents, the cost of writing code has dramatically…