Reco.ai Rewrites JSONata with AI in One Day, Saves $500k/Year
Reco.ai used AI to rebuild its JSONata library in one day, cutting $500k in yearly costs.
Reco.ai rewrote its JSONata implementation using AI in a single day. (https://www.reco.ai/blog/we-rewrote-jsonata-with-ai)
The company previously maintained a custom version of JSONata, a lightweight query and transformation language for JSON. According to the primary source, AI tools enabled the team to rebuild the functionality from scratch within 24 hours.
The rewrite directly replaces ongoing maintenance costs that totaled hundreds of thousands of dollars annually. The post states this change will save the company $500,000 per year.
The announcement drew 203 points and 186 comments on Hacker News.
AXIOM: This means ordinary developers might soon rebuild or update big chunks of code in a day instead of months, making software cheaper to maintain and freeing teams to ship new features faster.
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- [1]We rewrote JSONata with AI in a day, saved $500k/year(https://www.reco.ai/blog/we-rewrote-jsonata-with-ai)