Ask HN: Are people using Agents to clone/port codebases
TO BE CLEAR: I am not doing this! But, I keep thinking about it. What happens if I give a large codebase to Claude and say "Port the entire project to a different language. Do not use any existing code or class/method signatures. Maintain all functionality, but use alternative architecture where possible" Is this a thing? In theory can people now just rip entire platforms like NBD?
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I've now done this multiple times with older Claude versions.
If the project is complex, a key thing is telling it to do a 1:1 migration with full equivalent test coverage, following TDD best practices. That gives it the right structure to reliably test its own work and the results are consistently solid.
If the project is complex, a key thing is telling it to do a 1:1 migration with full equivalent test coverage, following TDD best practices. That gives it the right structure to reliably test its own work and the results are consistently solid.
Recently:
I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295771
I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in hours
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46295771