Rebuild an old app from scratch with coding agents
VG Lab, a product unit at the Norwegian paper VG, has six staff and two consultants. It recently took over the Pent weather app, whose code was hard to build on.
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What was done
VG Lab, a product unit at the Norwegian paper VG, has six staff and two consultants. It recently took over the Pent weather app, whose code was hard to build on. The team let AI agents study how the app worked, write new code and test the result. It took seven days. It rolled out gradually, and a month later each user opens the app 20 to 50 percent more often. The article does not say which agents they used.
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Read the code in [folder] and write an overview of what the app does, screen by screen. Make a plan to rebuild it in [framework] with the same features. Write tests for the current behaviour before you change anything. Build one part at a time and run the tests after each part. Show me the plan before anything is deleted or changed. You are done when all tests pass on the new version.
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Done when. All tests pass on the new version.
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