
Legacy Software Modernization in the AI Era
How AI changes the economics of legacy modernization, and why architecture, data ownership, and incremental migration still matter.
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Practical architecture decisions, tradeoffs, and operating lessons from software that has to survive business change.
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How AI changes the economics of legacy modernization, and why architecture, data ownership, and incremental migration still matter.
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