I am building a commercial application in my free time and I can definitely see evidence of this templatization. There are things that are very common in C# developer’s implementations which I deliberately don’t want to do. The AI will do it with reckless abandon. I can tell it not to, but it sneaks back in.

OSS library funding has been a huge issue in general. I really think the companies that have trillion dollar market caps can fund the development of top libraries but they just don’t.

They can just hire grok to be the ceo

Even if you can do this with AI and it produces a fully working result, the biggest problems in legacy systems are not the programming languages they are written in.

In fact converting one programming language into another doesn’t require AI. That’s because programming languages are uniform and exact. You can easily find tools that do this already.

The biggest problem is decades of technical debt and forgotten rules. With old mainframes the people who wrote the code are often no longer with us.

I don’t envy you. I learned cool in university and vowed to never touch it again. Without going into too much detail, what are some of the common problems?