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Most legacy apps are barely understood by anyone, and yet continue to generate value and and are (somehow) kept alive.


Many here have been doing the "understanding of legacy code" as a job +50 years.

This "legacy apps are barely understood by anybody", is just somnething you made up.


Give it another 10 years if the "LLM as compiler" people get their way.




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