Migrations & upgrades: 6 real cases
Port, migrate or upgrade existing code and sites.
Migrate two websites from WordPress to Wagtail with Claude Code
Over a weekend Claude Code moved two sites from WordPress to Wagtail, including server setup and testing; the poster says nothing broke.
WorkedClaude CodeEvidence: Described by posterView CasePort a backend to Convex in four hours with Factory's Droid
The poster reports Factory Droid ported a tRPC/Drizzle backend to Convex in about 4 hours, with some bugs left to fix.
WorkedFactory DroidEvidence: Described by posterView CaseMigrate a 50-screen app from Firebase to Supabase with Claude Code
Going feature by feature with Claude Code, the poster moved about 85% of a 50-screen app from Firebase to Supabase in 10–20 days.
WorkedClaude CodeEvidence: Described by posterPoster says:~85% migrated in 10–20 days
View CaseMigrate 180 microservices to a new framework version with Cursor agents
Brex reports its self-hosted Cursor agents let one engineer migrate 180 microservices from Micronaut 3 to 4 in a month.
WorkedCursor (self-hosted agents)Evidence: Company case studyAccording to Brex:180 microservices migrated in one month
View CasePort an HTML5 parser from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI
Codex CLI ran largely unattended for about 4.5 hours and produced 9,000 lines of JavaScript passing 9,200 html5lib tests.
WorkedOpenAI Codex CLIEvidence: Screenshots or logsPoster says:Passes 9,200 html5lib tests
View CaseUpgrade a plugin to a new framework alpha with Codex CLI
A one-line Codex CLI loop read the Datasette 1.0a20 upgrade docs, fixed the failing tests and got a plugin passing again.
WorkedOpenAI Codex CLIEvidence: Screenshots or logsView Case

