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Ask HN: Can AI explain legacy code to business users faster than devs?

1•L1nefeed•2h ago
Legacy software is facing a knowledge crisis. The engineers who built and understand these systems are leaving, retiring, or simply forgetting how they work. Right now, business stakeholders and architects can't understand their own software without routing every single question through engineering.

Has anyone successfully used AI to extract business logic from legacy code to give non-technical users a genuine understanding of the system? Is it actually faster and more reliable than asking a developer?

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