Byte-Creo·2d agoRebuilding an old website with AI? First write down what the old one quietly does.Cisco aims to rewrite 98% of its legacy code with AI, but it started with a four-week proof. The questions its story leaves open are the…A response icon1A response icon1
Jiteshkumawatjpr·2d agoReading Git History Like Tree RingsWhen we acquired the smaller company last year, I was handed their codebase — fifteen years old, a monolith with a settlement of services…
Altan "Atabarezz" Atabarut·3d agoThe Language Moat Is Dissolving. Legacy Software Just Got a Lot More Interesting. 💻For decades, companies were almost prisoners of their programming languages. Remember COBOL and FORTRAN?
Patrick Koss·3d agoAI writes worse code than humans. Which humans?In 2018 I opened a ten-thousand-line file with a changelog stapled to the top and ten sets of initials on it. No Copilot. No agents. Just…A response icon1A response icon1
InLa mia vitabymarco andreoli·5d agoMigrare un’app ASP.NET a .NET 10 senza riscriverla: il pattern Strangler Fig, una rotta alla voltaUn’app ASP.NET Core davanti, i System.Web adapters a fare da ponte, WebForms da riscrivere pagina per pagina. E il passo zero di cui si…
IncomsystoreplybyFlorian Schönherr·6d agoIt’s all about testing — using software agents for testing legacy softwareby Florian Schönherr
OWL·Oct 28Bedtime Stories: The Tower Nobody Dares to TouchBedtime Stories for Engineers: an animated story about an old system that keeps the business running, and how to renovate it.A response icon1A response icon1
Bolaji Adesina·Oct 27Module Refactor FrameworkA step-by-step framework for sequencing a module refactor safely and knowing what to test at each stage.
Tim Taplin·Oct 27Building a Language Implementation Without a SpecificationWritten in partnership with Claude Code and an Obsidian vault holding the project’s decision log.
Old Developer·Oct 27Don’t Rewrite Your Legacy Software for AI. Make It Safe for AI to Change.The future of agentic software development isn’t about generating more code. It’s about making existing software safe enough for AI agents…A response icon3A response icon3
