SMRTR ProgrammingSep 2, 2026Daily.dev

Using coding agents on a migration: Three practices that mattered

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A team migrating Temporal Cloud's billing data to ClickHouse found that coding agents were most useful during cleanup, not construction. Three low-cost habits drove most of that value: annotating temporary code with deletion instructions at creation time, scoping durable rules close to the code they govern with a named enforcement test, and treating instruction files like code that can go stale.

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