Move 1 Million Lines of Code in Two Weeks: Anthropic Used Claude to Migrate a Language They Had Been Afraid to Touch for Years into a Weekend
Traditionally, switching programming languages takes years, a major disruption for companies. Anthropic used Claude (Fable5, Opus4.8) and dynamic workflows to smoothly migrate 10 codebases (tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of lines each) to a new language in just one month, overturning conventional wisdom and demonstrating the efficiency and viability of AI-driven large-scale code refactoring.....