{"id":4095,"date":"2025-04-01T17:27:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:27:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/?p=4095"},"modified":"2025-08-19T12:47:47","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T12:47:47","slug":"aviator-agents-code-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/aviator-agents-code-migration\/","title":{"rendered":"Aviator Agents: LLM-Assisted Large Scale Code Migrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-post-featured-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2400\" height=\"1260\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aviator-code-migration-agents.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"aviator-code-migration-agents\" style=\"object-fit:cover;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aviator-code-migration-agents.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aviator-code-migration-agents-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aviator-code-migration-agents-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aviator-code-migration-agents-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aviator-code-migration-agents-1536x806.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aviator-code-migration-agents-2048x1075.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2400px) 100vw, 2400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n<p>Code migrations are necessary but painful. They\u2019re tricky, time-consuming, and let\u2019s be honest\u2014boring. They demand precision but often end up being a brute-force operation riddled with trial and error.<br><br>That\u2019s why we created <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/agents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Aviator Agents<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>an LLM-based Agentic framework to perform large-scale code migrations in your repositories.<\/strong><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/agents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Aviator Agents<\/a> act as <strong>intelligent migration assistants<\/strong>, emulating human patterns to perform migrations by finding references and documentation, understanding dependencies, breaking down large chunks of code, and verifying build status.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How Aviator Agents Works<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Define the migration<\/strong> \u2013 Specify the change you want to make. This could be renaming an API, refactoring a code pattern, or updating dependencies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>AI generates initial suggestions<\/strong> \u2013 The agent analyzes your codebase and produces a migration plan, applying transformations in a sandboxed environment.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Human-in-the-loop refinement<\/strong> \u2013 Developers review, modify, and guide the AI&#8217;s changes, ensuring correctness.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Automated execution at scale<\/strong> \u2013 Once validated, Aviator Agents rolls out the migration across your entire codebase with confidence.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Continuous learning<\/strong> \u2013 Feedback loops refine future migrations, making each successive transformation smarter.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike most LLM-based frameworks, Aviator Agents is an end-to-end framework that connects directly with GitHub. This eliminates the need to set up a custom environment and build process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Introducing Aviator Agents\" width=\"1490\" height=\"838\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/C03kRAiAy4k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Use Aviator Agents<\/strong> For<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Framework upgrades:<\/strong> Seamlessly migrate from one UI framework to another without breaking existing functionality.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>API deprecations:<\/strong> Update all usages of a deprecated API across a monorepo, ensuring no lingering issues.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Security fixes:<\/strong> Identify and patch vulnerabilities across thousands of services instantly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why Not Just Use Off-the-Shelf AI Coding Assistants?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>General-purpose coding assistants like GitHub Copilot or Cursor are great for generating snippets or answering questions, but they fall short when applied to large-scale migrations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They lack:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Deep integration with your codebase:<\/strong> Off-the-shelf assistants don\u2019t have full visibility into dependencies, tests, or project-wide constraints.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Multi-step reasoning:<\/strong> Code migrations require thoughtful, context-aware modifications, not just single-shot code generation.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Feedback loops for accuracy:<\/strong> Aviator Agents continuously refine their changes based on user feedback, making them better over time.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/agents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Aviator Agents<\/a> isn\u2019t just another AI code assistant\u2014it\u2019s a <strong>purpose-built migration system built for scale and correctness.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By offloading the bulk of migration work to AI while keeping humans in control, <strong>Aviator Agents turns code migrations from a painful, drawn-out process into a streamlined, efficient workflow<\/strong>. The result? Developers spend less time on busywork and more time building.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Try Aviator Agents<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If your team is tackling a large-scale code migration\u2014or has been putting one off because it\u2019s too daunting\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/agents\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Aviator Agents is here to help<\/a>. <strong>Reach out to get early access and see how AI-powered code migrations can transform your engineering workflow.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviator Agents is a purpose-built code migration system built for scale and correctness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":4096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,106],"tags":[258,259,260],"class_list":["post-4095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviator","category-ai"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/aviator-code-migration-agents.jpg","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4095"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4095\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aviator.co\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}