An app I support is a monster, it started in the 80s as a dos app and now it's a classic asp app running on VMs. No HA, for reasons, tons of vulns but it runs and it doesn't look terrible. It's just a nightmare for support.
On Thursday I had Claude start to do evidence gathering, we are currently evaluating the tool and I've been building skills and practices from our docs. I had it gather most of our wiki, most of our tickets, all of our code and index and research it.
Then I did a project plan to re-write the whole thing into dotnet 10 and host it in containers / k8s.
I started it churning and I was checking in on the site and graphically it wasn't even close and it was really struggling with some of the logic.
Then I noticed I never had it go through our QA's codebase. I had it review all 2k functional test and other testing as well as all the qa tickets.
Once it had re-written all of the tests into playwright and for once we actually had unit tests the runs well much smoother. I was averaging 5 agents running at any given time and they chewed through the code and testing fairly rapidly. After 24 hours (minus 8 hours sleep where I interrupted the loop and didn't realize it) of churning, probably 6 hours of my time. I had a functional app.
Now I am just building extra features into the k8s stack for the devs, monitoring stack, database utilities, object db utilities, vscode extensions / devcontainer.
I also got it through sonar and owaspzap.
I've shared it with 2 of my fellow managers as well as my boss. We were told we couldn't do this project because it would take roughly 60% of a 50 person department 1-2 years to get to the point where we had a feature pairity between dotnet core and asp.
On friday I am supposed to do a lunch and learn for how ai work flows could accelerate work....
I am really not sure what I tell the department. I feel like I am about to get like 30 people fired in the short term.
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