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Stop Rewriting Legacy Systems: Use AI to Understand Them First

TL;DR: AI should not help us rewrite legacy systems faster, it should help us understand them better, modernize them safely, and design stronger architectures for the future.

  • Emphasize understanding legacy systems before modernization.
  • AI helps discover business knowledge in legacy code.
  • Incremental modernization is safer than large-scale rewrites.

Why more context makes your AI answers worse

Your model says it has a one-million-token context window. Its real working memory is a lot smaller than that. On long-context benchmarks, models start failing well below the number printed on the…

  • Attention mechanism determines token focus; larger context splits focus, reducing performance
  • Important information near beginning and end of prompt performs best, middle performs worst

Why Repeated ChatGPT Runs Change How Businesses Measure AI Visibility

A brand appearing in a ChatGPT answer is not the same as holding a stable search ranking. Repeated runs of the same prompt can surface different brands and sources, making AI visibility a variable…

  • Repeated prompts in ChatGPT yield varied brand recommendations.
  • AI visibility requires sampling, not single snapshots.
  • Confidence intervals needed to reflect AI-generated uncertainty.

Trump posts AI slop of Iran bombing

US President Donald Trump published a string of unhinged posts to his social media platform overnight Sunday and into Monday morning, including an artificial intelligence-generated video attempting to…

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