alt Hacker NewsI moved two servers, one from Linode and the other from DO to Hetzner a few months ago, with similar savings. The best part was that the two servers had tens of different sites running, implemented in different languages, with obsolete libraries, MySQL and Redis instances. A total mess. Well: Claude Code migrated it all, sometimes rewriting parts when the libraries where no longer available. Today complex migrations are much simpler to perform, which, I believe, will increase the mobility across providers a lot.
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Wow a Claude add embedded into a Hetzner add.
How deep does this go?
I’ve been experimenting with letting a local agent manipulate my remote servers using https://bower.sh/zmx-ai-portal
What’s exciting is how simple cli tools can be so impactful to dev workflows
Now imagine you can do that with a local model. You're basically breaking lockin on _Every_ end. Simply beautiful. A digital guillotine for the digital elite!
Sure, and then you realize it deleted the db to "simplify the migration" lol
Obviously I agree that AI can be useful to write boilerplate, but it's in no way something you should use blindly when trying to do a migration or anything touching prod
So, to be more precise: no, "Claude Code didn't migrate it all". Claude Code helped you write boilerplate so that you could migrate
yeah, everything is about to be repriced.
IMO nobody was paying for magic compute. they're paying to not touch ten years of glue.
if agents eat that glue, the moat gets thin fast.