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The original codebase had a good test suite, so I had it port the test suite first, and gave it some code style guidance up front
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80-90% done
In the thread “We put a coding agent in a while loop”
Helped: Good test suite and upfront code style guidance.
I’ve done a few ports like this with Claude Code (but not with a while loop) and it did work amazingly well. The original codebase had a good test suite, so I had it port the test suite first, and gave it some code style guidance up front. Then the agent did remarkably well at doing a straight port from one imperative language to another. …