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Legacy Modernization meets GenAI
Most of the talk about the impact of GenAI on software development is about its ability to write (messy) code. But many of us think it's going to be much more useful to help us understand existing messy code, as part of a modernization effort. My colleagues Alessio Ferri, Tom Coggrave, and Shodhan Sheth have been considering how GenAI can do this, including building an internal tool to help explore the possibilities. The tool uses an LLM to enhance a knowledge graph based on the AST of the code base. It also uses an LLM to help users query this knowledge graph. more…
Most of the talk about the impact of GenAI on software development is about its ability to write (messy) code. But many of us think it's going to be much more useful to help us understand existing messy code, as part of a modernization effort. My colleagues Alessio Ferri, Tom Coggrave, and Shodhan Sheth have been considering how GenAI can do this, including building an internal tool to help explore the possibilities. The tool uses an LLM to enhance a knowledge graph based on the AST of the code base. It also uses an LLM to help users query this knowledge graph.
