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Moving legacy applications to the cloud requires time and attention from people who are already busy. Some systems will need partial rewrites. Others won’t behave the same way once moved. If there’s no clear legacy system migration strategy, it’s easy to end up with higher costs and very little improvement.

Yes, Google still processes billions of search queries daily, but an increasing portion of those searches now end on the results page itself. No clicks. No website visits. No conversion opportunities. An AI summary appears at the top, serves the user with exactly what they asked for, and they move on.

As I'm scrolling through the output of my imagination on screen, at that moment, I realized that I wasn’t just using AI, I was confronting a deeper question that plagued me: “Will AI replace graphic designers? If it can do all this… then what am I doing here?”

A practical account of what worked, what broke, and what we observed while helping a client migrate a decade-old Laravel application to a greenfield system using an AI coding assistant.