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		pillefitz 11 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience tha... Most legacy apps are barely understood by anyone, and yet continue to generate value and and are (somehow) kept alive.

lomase 11 days ago [–]

Many here have been doing the "understanding of legacy code" as a job +50 years.

This "legacy apps are barely understood by anybody", is just somnething you made up.

filoeleven 11 days ago | [–]

Give it another 10 years if the "LLM as compiler" people get their way.

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