The key difference between the transpilers and the new agentic code converter, according to analysts, lies in how each of them executes conversion and how that could benefit enterprises.
“Deterministic transpilers (Morpheus) handle syntax mapping well: date functions, join syntax, straightforward pattern-to-pattern translation. They get brittle fast on anything requiring control-flow reasoning, cursors, dynamic SQL assembled at runtime, recursive CTEs implemented differently across T-SQL, Teradata, and Oracle,” said Amit Chandak, chief analytics officer at IT consulting firm Kanerika.
“That’s the same 10% to 15% of a legacy codebase that eats most of the manual remediation time on every migration I’ve worked on,” Chandak noted.
