Refactoring Legacy Code Safely with AI + TDD

For this online event, we will have the opportunity to receive Michael R. Larson as a speaker. Michael is a Software Engineering Manager at GEICO. He love Mentorship & AI.

After a brief introduction of our community, Michael will walk through a practical kata example and show how AI can reduce cognitive load while keeping engineers safe when working in complex systems.

Developers don’t live in greenfield utopias, we inherit massive, messy, mission-critical legacy code.
In this session, Michael will demonstrate how AI can act as a powerful “supercharged rubber duck” to help engineers understand confusing code, map out safe seams, design effective characterization tests, and refactor with confidence using TDD. This is a practical, live walkthrough of how AI lowers cognitive load and makes refactoring legacy safer and more enjoyable.