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

Drawn from what Boris Cherny said

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What Boris Cherny actually said

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    Boris Cherny 4 Mar 2026

    always make sure that when you start a migration, you finish the migration.
    spoken · official transcript

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

First recorded here 4 Mar 2026 · How quotes work

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