To Rewrite or To Refactor? How AI is Flipping the Legacy Modernization Playbook
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For decades, software engineering followed an unwritten golden rule: "Never rewrite legacy systems from scratch." Refactoring in place was almost always the safer, more conservative path. Rewrites were notorious for cost overruns, missed deadlines, and lost business logic hidden deep within million…
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To Rewrite or To Refactor? How AI is Flipping the Legacy Modernization Playbook