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Legacy reengineering: regain control of a monolith

When only two people remember how a system works, the business is at risk. AI SDLC can recover models and documentation from code.

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The main pain of legacy systems is knowledge locked in people's heads. Documentation is missing or outdated, changes are risky, and onboarding takes months.

Step 1: code to models

LLMs analyze existing code and recover components, dependencies, API catalogs, data structures and key business rules. The system gets an explicit description for the first time.

Step 2: models to documentation

Recovered models generate architecture docs, API docs and user-facing documentation. The team can then evolve the system through artifacts, not guesswork.

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Step 3: controlled evolution

  • Dependency on a few experts is reduced
  • Onboarding drops from months to days
  • Changes become visible, testable and safer

Legacy stops being a black box. It becomes a system the team can understand, document and change.

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