On: ASK HN: How to engineer a JavaScript to Python migration?

[austin-cheney]

> How much of an overkill that might be?

It sounds like a complete waste of time. If you are talking about small code snippets then simply write new original Python to replace them.

[ninocan → austin-cheney]

Yep, I thought about that... Still, there's a few hundreds of workflows to migrate, so I was looking for a systematic approach

[simonw → ninocan]

LLMs are absolutely the right thing to look at for migrating hundreds of "simple" workflows like this.

The hard work will be validating that the code they write for you is exactly right. You would have to do that if you wrote the code yourself, too. The LLMs will accelerate the writing-the-code part but the manual QA work will still be on you: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/#y...