IDEAS, DECISIONS & LESSONS
Notes on AI, architecture and building useful products.
7 articles
10 Mar 2026 · 10 min read
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Part 7 of 7 — The final retrospective. Ten anti-patterns to avoid, what AI genuinely can't do, what surprised us, and where AI-assisted migration is heading next.
Read more08 Mar 2026 · 8 min read
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Part 6 of 7 — How to prove AI-assisted migration is actually working. The metrics that matter to developers, tech leads, and bosses. Real numbers, dashboard templates, and what to do when the data looks bad.
Read more06 Mar 2026 · 10 min read
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Part 5 of 7 — The part nobody talks about: teaching a junior developer to use AI effectively, managing team resistance, earning client trust, and keeping the boss updated. Migration is as much people as it is code.
Read more04 Mar 2026 · 10 min read
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Part 4 of 7 — How to migrate a WPF desktop application to a web app using React and Next.js, with AI accelerating the hardest parts. MVVM to component state, XAML to JSX, and the strangler fig pattern.
Read more02 Mar 2026 · 10 min read
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Part 3 of 7 — The actual steps to migrate a .NET Framework 4.6 application to .NET 10 using AI. Includes project file conversion, API replacements, prompt patterns, token limit strategies, and the 80% coverage plan.
Read more28 Feb 2026 · 13 min read
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Part 2 of 7 — A five-phase workflow for AI-assisted legacy migration. From assessment to ship, with tool recommendations, team role definitions, and the prompt patterns that actually work.
Read more26 Feb 2026 · 10 min read
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Part 1 of 7 — Two migration projects, a small team, a cost-conscious boss, and AI as the equalizer. Here's what the data says — and what nobody tells you about migrating legacy systems in 2025.
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