> Though the tool can, in theory, rewrite code from an older language to a newer one, it doesn't know how to write the new code efficiently or as well as a human developer, Pizzi said.

From what I've seen, one popular use of coding agents is to refactor code. Wouldn't it be easier to create a non-ai scanner, parser, translator for the perl codebase and let AI run and refactor it? At that point human devs can come in, look out for inefficiencies and tackle bugs on a nearly-functional codebase?