To Migrate or Not? Managing Technical Hype Cycles with KMP & AI
summary
Practical rubric for whether to migrate: measure concrete gains (stability, performance, security) against actual maintenance cost, not hype; use Kotlin KMP prototypes and a desktop hot‑reload loop to validate ergonomics before committing; run big rewrites as many small, testable projects and decouple ports from business logic; use Play Store summarization and automated scoring to flag risky platform changes; expect AI-assisted migrations to cut some effort (sometimes halving or quartering tasks) but increase cognitive and test‑suite debt.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Welcome
- 3:09AI hype cycle today
- 7:22Abstraction layers shift
- 12:18Prototypes in AI era
- 17:15AI for engineering teams
- 20:04Software migration realities
- 25:03Kotlin in AI landscape
- 27:48Agentic workflows for migrations
- 28:31Hype versus real adoption
- 31:41Legacy code soil
- 33:28Judgment in building
- 34:51Codebase context
- 35:33Headless migrations
- 36:55Choosing tools with intentionality
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