it's still worth to do it like this, because I keep strict controls over it, instead of buying very expensive email migration software
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5.5TB of emails across hundreds of mailboxes
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Helped: Strict controls and deep understanding of the problems.
Got in the way: Edge cases caused mailbox breaks and imprecise reports.
… it quickly turned into quite a mess, opus5.5, often on ultra, almost a week of work (that's 7 full days, not a calendar week), I still don't have very precise reports because of all the edge cases (5.5TB of emails across hundreds of mailboxes) and opus5.5 would have basically broken the mailboxes on exchange online at least four times. it's still worth to do it like this, because I keep strict controls over it, instead of buying very expensive email migration software. same experience with using LLMs (which I do) to write critical code for what are basically CRUDs but actually handle invoicing, warehousing and all those nice critical problems where there's actually money on the line but are not truly deep CS issues. …