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Steve Yegge and Gene Kim Pairing Session: Using Claude Code to Migrate Wyvern Management Scripts

Claude Code: A Pairing Session with Steve Yegge and Gene Kim In this session, Steve uses Anthropic's Cloud Code, a terminal-based coding assistant powered by Claude 3.7, to port a 3,500-line legacy Ruby script that manages game server infrastructure to Kotlin. This was a task we had previously attempted and failed with Claude 3.5 just two months earlier. Steve Yegge and I are writing "The Vibe Coding Handbook: How Developers Can Build More Ambitious, Reliable Production-Systems, Faster, Better, and Have More Fun," and this pairing session shows exactly what this new programming approach can accomplish. As Cloud Code builds the Kotlin port step by step, with proper modular architecture and unit tests, Steve and I discuss what this means for everyday development work. The tool completes in just one hour what would have taken Steve roughly a week of focused coding. Beyond mere translation, it produces higher quality code with improvements Steve had wanted for years but couldn't justify the time investment. The session gives us a clear view of how developers can now tackle technical debt that once seemed too overwhelming to address. At the very end of the conversation, Steve reflects on the economics of using Claude Code. At $10/hour, running multiple Cloud Code instances could quickly approach a senior developer's salary, creating real budget challenges for organizations. Yet the productivity gains seem unstoppable, with Steve remarking this technology has made previously abandoned projects viable again. "I've got all this pent up anger at 30 years of bugs that have been piling up," he confesses, "and now I've got a machine that can just fix them." This session captures that exact moment when two experienced engineers realize we're seeing a major shift in how software gets built—something both exciting and potentially disruptive.