Legacy Code

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Walling: Ten-Year-Old SaaS Companies Suffer from Legacy Code Drag
“This is why it's so hard to run a SaaS company for like more than, I don't know, 10 years. Like it just gets, the markets shift and especially a ten-year-old SaaS company is a lot of legacy code and you start moving slower and you can't Hit that momentum”
Rob Walling Aug 28, 2025 ▶ 9:56 Episode 791 | TinySeed Tales s5e2: Growing Pains
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Appenzeller: Creating specs first yields best results in AI legacy code migrations
“The most efficient way for them is to actually go first and try to create a spec, use the AI to create a spec from that code, right? And once they have the spec, then to re-implement the spec.”
Guido Appenzeller May 16, 2025 ▶ 33:19 Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
Struppelhoff: AI Prompts Can Analyze Legacy Code and Generate Documentation
“So we can use AI prompts and actually understand the code and have it generate Comments for us to help us understand what's happening in somebody else's code. So that's really helpful.”
Matt Struppelhoff Apr 22, 2025 ▶ 9:27 AI Can Write Code, But It Can't Do Architecture

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