Jekyll to Astro: an AI-assisted migration | Kevin London

I used AI tools to move my blog from Jekyll to Astro. Cursor helped me finish in about 3-4 hours (half the usual time), and I spent $10 testing out Aider. The site’s faster and easier to maintain now. My Jekyll blog worked fine but felt a bit dated. I decided to switch to Astro after hearing good things about how it handles Markdown and builds pages quickly. Here’s what I started with:.