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  • Migrate two websites from WordPress to Wagtail with Claude CodeRecreated promptEvidence: Described by poster

    Over a weekend Claude Code migrated two sites from WordPress to Wagtail (PHP to Python), including server setup, data transfer, testing and fixes, and redesigned a homepage; the poster reports nothing broke and traffic and tools stayed in place.

    Claude Code · Coding · Source date:

  • Port a backend to Convex in four hours with Factory's DroidRecreated promptEvidence: Described by poster

    The poster reports that Factory's Droid ported their tRPC/Drizzle custom backend to Convex in about 4 hours, with some bugs left to fix.

    Factory Droid · Coding · Source date:

  • Migrate a 50-screen app from Firebase to Supabase with Claude CodeRecreated promptEvidence: Described by poster

    Going feature by feature, the poster used Claude Code to generate database schemas, write queries and fix daily errors; they report migrating about 85% of a 45–50 screen Flutter app from Firebase to Supabase in 10–20 days.

    Poster says:~85% migrated in 10–20 days

    Claude Code · Coding · Source date:

  • Build a blog feature by voice with Codex while cookingRecreated promptEvidence: Screenshots or logs

    Talking to Codex in voice mode while cooking dinner, the author got a Django newsletters archive with four importers and a pull request, then finished the rest with typed prompts.

    OpenAI Codex (ChatGPT desktop, voice mode) · Coding · Source date:

  • Brex reports that its self-correcting, self-hosted Cursor agents let one engineer migrate 180 microservices from Micronaut 3 to 4 in a month, which it calls a 32x per-capita speedup.

    According to Brex:180 microservices migrated in one month

    Cursor (self-hosted agents) · Coding · Source date:

  • Automate defect remediation across C/C++ codebases with Codex CLIRecreated promptEvidence: Company case study

    According to OpenAI's case study, Cisco's Codex CLI defect-repair workflow raised defect resolution throughput 10–15x, and Codex build optimization saved more than 1,500 engineering hours a month.

    According to OpenAI:10–15x defect resolution throughput

    OpenAI Codex CLI · Coding · Source date:

  • Codex CLI (GPT-5.2) ran for hours largely unattended and produced about 9,000 lines of dependency-free JavaScript passing 9,200 html5lib tests, in about 4.5 hours start to finish.

    Poster says:Passes 9,200 html5lib tests

    OpenAI Codex CLI · Coding · Source date:

  • A one-line `codex exec` loop read the Datasette 1.0a20 upgrade docs, fixed the failing tests, and got the datasette-checkbox plugin passing again.

    OpenAI Codex CLI · Coding · Source date:

  • Claude Code for web built a terminal-to-html tool that turns pasted terminal output into a shareable gist-preview link, recorded start to finish in an 11-minute video.

    Claude Code for web · Coding · Source date:

  • With four prompts and about 40 minutes, Claude Code figured out the right ARM CUDA PyTorch wheels, got DeepSeek-OCR running on NVIDIA Spark hardware, and OCR'd a test image.

    Claude Code · Coding · Source date:

  • Claude Code (Sonnet 4.5) wrote every line of code and every test for the datasette-os-info plugin with minimal prompting, and the author shipped it.

    Claude Code · Coding · Source date:

  • Speed up feature delivery by moving a team to CursorRecreated promptEvidence: Article or interview

    Security startup Jit moved its engineers from JetBrains to Cursor and, according to the article, delivered features 1.8–3x faster.

    Reported by LeadDev:1.8x–3x productivity gains

    Cursor · Coding · Source date:

  • Claude Code wrote a script that builds a mobile-friendly colophon page listing every tool and its commit history, then wired it into the GitHub Pages deploy workflow.

    Claude Code · Coding · Source date:

  • From a single informal prompt, Claude Code built a working 3D game for placing buildings and driving around in about four minutes; follow-up prompts added a fire truck, traffic, and fires.

    Reported by One Useful Thing:Working game in about four minutes

    Claude Code · Coding · Source date: