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The AI and the AI got a working prototype of a legacy migration in about 2 weeks

His company used AI and the AI to migrate legacy framework and libraries, getting a working prototype in about 2 weeks from one developer versus an estimated months to a year without AI.

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How it works

  1. One developer works with AI and the AI
  2. The legacy framework and libraries are migrated
  3. A working prototype stands in about 2 weeks, against an estimate of months to a year the manual way

Why it’s worth knowing

One developer plus agents matched a team's quarter of work, at prototype stage.

Where it’s from

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

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