Priya inherited 850,000 lines of Python. 12 years of accumulated decisions, zero tests, documentation that lied. New features took months because nobody understood how anything connected.

She didn't hire consultants. She built a stateless agent system that spawned fresh AI instances per file - avoiding context pollution at scale.

14 months later: 520,000 lines of Go, 78% test coverage, deploy times down from 45 minutes to 8. Total cost: $8,400.

The consultants had quoted $400,000.

Full breakdown - the three phases, the rules system, the 15% that still needed human judgment:

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