SMRTR ProgrammingMar 10, 2026Hacker News

Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over

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Autonoma is rewriting their entire QA testing platform after 1.5 years of development, despite closing clients successfully. They're abandoning Next.js and Server Actions due to performance issues, security footguns, and testing difficulties. The team is switching to React with tRPC and Hono backend, reducing memory usage from 8GB to nearly free while implementing strict TypeScript and comprehensive testing from the ground up.

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