AI Talks - Ray Meyers: AI Hates Legacy Code

Welcome to our eight-week series on practical uses of AI for software crafters. Each week, we will have an expert talking about their learnings in this new a rapidly evolving field. If you're excited to learn how these new tools can enhance and support your skills, please join us!

This series is hosted in collaboration with Software Crafters Montreal. https://guild.host/software-crafters-montreal

Description:

AI coding agents feel like magic... right up until they collide with production code.

For teams maintaining legacy systems, these agents often hallucinate APIs, run off on tangents, and shatter trust faster than an unreviewed hotfix at 5pm. Ignoring the past won't save us, because new code becomes old!

We can do better, and we will. In this session we'll go over emerging strategies for improving the accuracy of coding agents on real codebases, benchmarks such as SWE-bench that evaluate our progress, and their limitations. Expect to walk away with actionable techniques and a renewed respect for code that came before us and the challenges ahead.

Speaker:

Ray Myers, Co-host of Legacy Code Rocks, Chief Architect at All Hands AI