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I had Claude Opus 4 rewrite a 2,500 line powershell script for embedded automation into Python and it did a pretty solid job
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2,500 line powershell script
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Helped: Rewriting large script from PowerShell to Python.
Got in the way: General refactoring and module structure decisions.
Claude Code / 4o struggle with this for me, but I had Claude Opus 4 rewrite a 2,500 line powershell script for embedded automation into Python and it did a pretty solid job. A few bugs, but cheaper models were able to clean those up. …