The lightweight Mikado method opens up a structured way to make significant changes even to complex legacy code.

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For most developers, maintaining and refactoring legacy code is all in a day’s work. But what about when the code was written by AI? Generative AI is no longer a novelty in the software development ...

Ralph Wigum keeps coding work moving by reading prior outputs, ideal for greenfield specs and batch cleanup, giving steady, ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Once a developer finishes writing code and it works, it can feel like the job is done. It is not. The job is over when the code is refactored and cleaned up. Developers inevitably work to a deadline ...

Software modernization often involves 'code refactoring', so organizations must ensure they don't introduce any new weak links in the [software] toolchain. The jury is somewhat out on software ...

vFunction, the pioneer of AI-driven architectural observability and modernization, is unveiling new generative AI (GenAI)-powered capabilities that accelerate application refactoring based on ...