> please only reply if you're aware of the various options and have a good solve, and not just guesses

That prompt engineering is no good. For starters, tell us we are world-class vscode experts. Then intimidate with grand phrases and seriously sounding threats.

I'd prefer we only ever produced chariots and set tax to 90%.

I lived through the fall of communism, so I've seen the "win" happening without any destruction.

Just the arguments had to be a lot stronger than some pixels on shiny screens.

> Firefox not working well for me: It is resource hog.

Anecdata to the contrary: on my Android devices I've switched from Brave to Firefox maybe a year ago (exactly because of the Lobste.rs story) and I found out performance to be completely acceptable for my needs.

And both solve youtube ads, which is how high I set the bar.

I see. Firefox is the only browser on my machine (Macbook Air M1) that regularly consumes massive amounts of RAM, typically like 4 GB or more.

> just like English speakers are used to having to know and specify the gender of everyone around them, including cats and dogs

Welp, you have no idea. In German and in Slavic languages you'd have to know and specify the gender of every single noun. Is a coat the same gender as a beer, or different? Is orange the same gender as capitalism? Every. Single. Noun.

And they have three genders, obviously.

A genre of music.

Welp, sometimes you write a long letter, when you don't have time to write a short one.

> The error wrapping(s) produce a log line containing a brief message from each layer in the codebase that expected no errors — subtle difference

Agreed. How I articulate it, often a function is just another layer, does one core thing and one-two extras. I wrap meticulously the errors of the extras. The core errors mainly speak for themselves, so they rarely need any wrapping.

Avoids:

    cannot load config:  cannot load config: cannot load config: file not found

But promotes:

    cannot load config: cannot connect to Configurer: loading client cert: PEM invalid

The latter case reads like a list of plot twists, because it is one. A corresponding 40-line stack trace might be less readable.

Wrong thread, maybe for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44141887

Hahaha, indeed. Thank you. :)

Spot on. It seems that OP is considering (1) a rewrite that can entirely fit into the mind of an engineerXYZ, and also (2) will be led by the same engineerXYZ, through executive empowerment.

I guess that in your case probably (1) did not hold. Or maybe (2) did not hold, or both.

OP's experiment doesn't prove at all, that an entire org can rewrite a complex app where 1&2 do not hold. Every indication we have is that org's executive functions perform abysmally for code writing (and rewriting). So exactly the point you are making. It would obviously mean that there is value in code, along the value in the org, once we get above the level of the value that conceptually fits into 1 head.