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Bloomberg details LLM-driven code migration success and bottlenecks

Bloomberg has detailed its experience using a hybrid LLM-deterministic pipeline for large-scale code migration across thousands of its repositories. The initiative, named Automated Uplift, focused on migrating Python packaging and C++ build systems, resulting in 729 successful migrations out of 2,333 generated pull requests. Key findings indicate that while generating migrations was manageable, the primary bottleneck was the cost for owning teams to review, test, and deploy these changes. The process was more efficient when changes could be verified within the pipeline before a pull request, and when migrations were uniform enough for fixes to be transferable across repositories. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates practical application of LLMs for enterprise code migration, highlighting challenges in review and deployment processes.

RANK_REASON Academic paper detailing industrial experience with LLM-assisted code migration. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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Bloomberg details LLM-driven code migration success and bottlenecks

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Mario Corchero, David Williams, Laszlo Kiss Kollar, Haowen Liu, Shivam Bairoliya, Gala Malbasic, Serkan Kirbas, Federica Sarro ·

    Hybrid LLM-Deterministic Pipelines for Enterprise-Scale Code Migration at Bloomberg

    arXiv:2611.05457v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large organizations carry a long tail of infrastructure migrations that are worth doing but rarely urgent enough to compete with feature work, because each one costs significant engineering time per repository. This paper reports …