A migration must be finished once it is started, because a half-migrated codebase confuses models as much as it confuses people.

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1. 4 Mar 2026

   Boris Cherny quoted

   Their wordsalways make sure that when you start a migration, you finish the migration.

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   ↗Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny — The Pragmatic Engineernewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com