The MenderCon CFP is closing soon!  Like March 16th soon, so get off your butt and submit your presentation.

https://sessionize.com/mendercon-2026/

While you are at it, you should also update that dependency you have been putting off.  Don't act surprised. You know which one I'm talking about.  We all have "that" dependency we need to update but have been putting of for some reason.

tl;dr: Submit MenderCon CFP ASAP!

#mendercon #legacycode #cfp #dependencies

Legacy code slows everything down.

It increases risk, drags out releases, and makes even small changes harder than they should be.

AI is starting to change that.

I put together a post on how teams can use AI to modernize codebases more strategically by surfacing technical debt, improving test coverage, supporting refactoring, and reducing modernization risk.

Read it here:
https://aitransformer.online/ai-codebase-modernization-strategy/

#AI #SoftwareEngineering #LegacyCode #TechDebt #CodeModernization

AI Tool Identifies Vulnerabilities in Decades-Old Apple II Program

📰 Original title: Claude AI Finds Bugs In Microsoft CTO's 40-Year-Old Apple II Code

🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Usuarios: It's clickbait ⚠️

View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/ai-tool-identifies-vulnerabilities-in-decades-old-apple-ii-program/?redirpost=83313573-82aa-444e-a065-42fbf2ab4f98

#technology #ai #legacycode #cybersecurity

Michael Feathers wrote in the preface of Working Effectively with Legacy Code:

“Legacy code is simply code without tests.”

But I keep wondering:

If we add tests to legacy code…
does it stop being legacy?

#legacycode #softwareengineering #softwarearchitecture

Maledetto codice legacy

https://bluebabbler.it/post/Maledetto_codice_legacy

#perdire #software #legacyCode #algoritmi

Use the Mikado Method to do safe changes in a complex codebase

https://understandlegacycode.com/blog/a-process-to-do-safe-changes-in-a-complex-codebase/

#HackerNews #MikadoMethod #SafeChanges #Codebase #TechDebt #LegacyCode

Working with Legacy Code

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://frontendmasters.com/blog/working-with-legacy-code/

IBM’s $40 B loss isn’t about a failed AI miracle – it’s the cost of translating massive COBOL estates. The push for “modernization” turned into a massive code‑migration gamble, even with Watsonx. Find out why legacy code still trumps hype and what it means for enterprise systems. #COBOL #LegacyCode #AITranslation #EnterpriseSystems

🔗 https://aidailypost.com/news/ibms-usd-40b-loss-tied-cobol-translation-not-true-modernization

Code Metal raised $125M to tackle the Pentagon's legacy code problem - translating decades-old defense software written in Ada, COBOL, and Fortran into modern languages using AI, then formally verifying the translations are correct. The startup claims profitability with major defense contractors as customers, but the real test comes when scaling beyond pilot programs to production systems that actually run military infrastructure.

#DefenseTech #LegacyCode #AITranslation

https://www.implicator.ai/pentagon-software-runs-on-code-older-than-its-recruits-code-metals-125-million-fix/

They said it couldn't be tested... But they were wrong. Sort of.

Read more here:
https://www.devleader.ca/2023/12/20/dealing-with-legacy-code-how-to-make-anything-more-testable/

#legacycode #testing #programming #coding