I’ve actually talked with two other companies that are doing that rather than hiring people to convert things. Since it’s not asking the LLM to create code from scratch or a framework, apparently it works surprisingly well and then they have a dev, versed in a modern language go through it, and ensure it’s relatively sane. The quote I heard was “it’s really no different than picking up someone else’s code to look at”.
I’ve actually talked with two other companies that are doing that rather than hiring people to convert things. Since it’s not asking the LLM to create code from scratch or a framework, apparently it works surprisingly well and then they have a dev, versed in a modern language go through it, and ensure it’s relatively sane. The quote I heard was “it’s really no different than picking up someone else’s code to look at”.