What they are promising sounds terrifying, given the self-imposed 1-week time frame.

Cutting down the codebase by two-thirds, in a week, without having at least months of built-up understanding of the project - and using LLMs to do it - sounds like a recipe for disaster, no matter how short the “leash”.

Fighting slop with more slop, just so it can fit back into the LLM context window to make more slop.