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159: Mending Code with AI with Ray Myers

AI proves to be great at writing new code, but what are its capabilities when it comes to mending the old one? Today we talk with Ray Myers, a legacy code expert and sceptical enthusiast for AI.


AI proves to be great at writing new code, but what are its capabilities when it comes to mending the old one?

Today we talk with Ray Myers, a legacy code expert and sceptical enthusiast for AI. With 16 years of software engineering experience, he focuses on collective lessons learned to improve our existing systems and organizations. He tells us where is the place of AI in legacy code mending, whether AI can provide help when editing existing code, how to train AI with up-to-date coding skills, how to utilize AI when writing tests, and much more. 

When you finish listening to the episode, make sure to connect with Ray on LinkedIn, visit his website at https://mender.ai, his YouTube channel Craft vs. Cruft, and take a listen to Empathy in Tech - a new podcast cohosted by Ray and Legacy Code Rocks former cohost, Andrea Goulet!

Mentioned in this episode:

Ray on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/cadrlife/ 

Craft vs. Cruft at https://www.youtube.com/@craftvscruft8060 

Mender website at https://mender.ai 

Nopilot.dev at https://nopilot.dev 

Empathy in Tech at https://empathyintech.com 

Untangler at https://github.com/craftvscruft/untangler 

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Legacy Code Rocks

Legacy Code Rocks explores the world of modernizing existing software applications.

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In this show, hosts M. Scott Ford and Ray Myers are out to change the way you think about legacy code.

If you're like a lot of people, when you hear the words "legacy code" it conjures up images of big mainframes and archaic punch card machines. While that's true — it only tells a small part of the story. The code you leave behind is your legacy, so let's make it a good one.

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