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Campfire Once AI rewrite postmortem: developers still own the engineering trade-offs

I'm sorry, but you still have to think

Piotr Sarnacki reviewed and re-tested an AI rewrite of Campfire Once. He argues developers still have to read the code and pin down constraints, and that a single metric cannot settle which language is better.

Why it matters: Sarnacki went through the AI-rewritten Campfire Once code and found the throughput comparison skewed by differences in compatibility and queue design between the versions.

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