>You're being extremely negative about this whole endeavour without looking at the evidence that this effort is going far more smoothly than expected

no I'm being negative because as I just said, if you want to do a purely syntactic translation you don't even need an LLM, that's called transpilation and we've been doing it programmatically for decades.

This is the kind of thing that looks great to people who can't program, think this is some new superpower unlocked by the mystery magic of LLMs and that is exactly the kind of impression Claude wants to sell.