Today's Lead The Bun rewrite proves 'never rewrite from scratch' was always a cope
<p>In just 11 days, 64 AI agents successfully ported roughly 535,000 lines of Zig code to Rust. It didn't take 14 months, or a war room full of senior engineers. All it took was eleven days and a credit card. ## The rule that just cracked</p>
<p>In the year 2000, Joel Spolsky wrote that the rewrite from scratch is the "single worst strategic mistake" that any software company can make. That became gospel. Every experienced developer has used it when they disagree with a more junior person's sug