
A concrete playbook for using agents on the hardest kind of legacy migration: undocumented, test-free, architecturally tangled code, not simple syntax translation.
“Build the parity harness before you write migration code—numerical agreement is the cheapest, most convincing proof that a module is done.”
“Get the documentation in order before you lean on the agents, because you can't migrate code nobody can read.”
“It looked like Fortran retyped in C++ syntax rather than modernized code.”
“How to prove the migrated codebase matches the legacy one numerically”
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