$10K Fixed-Price Migration: Reddit Debates Whether Agents Can Credibly Deliver
SufficientLab218 · reddit · 2026-11-13
A Reddit thread asks whether you'd take a $10,000 fixed-price contract to migrate a service with hundreds of files, incomplete tests and undocumented behavior to a new framework using agents. Key points: large projects bottleneck on dependency discovery, work decomposition and keeping parallel pieces compatible; wrong early architectural assumptions mean 10 agents efficiently implement the wrong thing; separate worktrees don't fix conflicting assumptions, and rolling back a 6-hour-old bad decision is painful. Cost-wise, exploration, execution, integration, verification and rework all matter—model usage is the easiest to estimate, human oversight during failures is the expensive part.
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