An agent harness converted his framework to the modern API and rescued a rotting project

An agentic harness for Sonnet 3.5 converted a medium-large vue-class-component framework to Vue 3 composition API, rescuing a personal project from software rot.

How it works

An agentic harness for an older model converts a medium-large component framework project to the modern composition API
Rescuing a personal project from software rot

Why it’s worth knowing

Software rot is slow; the conversion was not.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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