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Don't Generate, Renovate
Learn how AI can efficiently refactor existing code, reducing brittleness and maintenance costs by applying a simple, proven technique for rapid, reliable code renovation.
The real cost of software engineering is not creating new code, but changing existing code. It’s right there in the name—software is meant to be soft. But so much of the code we have out there is hard to understand, and brittle to change. This is most of the reason that software development is expensive and slow.
AI tools have been touted as a way to speed up this process (or even to replace slow human engineers) by generating new code and new apps faster. But that’s not the problem! AI is actually much better at cleaning the code you already have than creating new code. And that’s where we need it the most.
There is one trick to making it work, though, and that’s what I’m going to show you.