Using GenAI to build a capability map and translate legacy systems

Alessio Ferri, Tom Coggrave, and Shodhan Sheth complete their article on what they have learned from using GenAI with legacy systems. They describe how GenAI's ability to process unstructured information makes it much easier to build a capability map of a legacy system, tying the capabilities of a system to the relevant parts of the source code. GenAI is also useful for identifying areas of dead code, and has promise for better translations of a system between platforms and languages.

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