Legacy Code: Your AI-Powered Exit Strategy

You know that legacy web application that takes new developers 3 months to understand? The one where simple features take forever to ship? Let's talk about how to rebuild it incrementally using AI tools—without the disaster of a big-bang rewrite.

In this session, Daniel Killyevo will explore practical refactoring patterns for web applications that let you ship new features every 2-4 weeks while gradually modernizing your platform. You'll see how AI tools like Cursor and V0 can accelerate routine development tasks, where they genuinely help (hint: boilerplate and analysis), and where they don't. We'll look at real code examples showing how to embed modern micro-apps within monoliths and tackle the fun stuff like authentication bridges and state management.

Based on helping 6 companies escape their legacy web platforms, Daniel will share what actually works, what fails spectacularly, and why iterative rebuilding beats the "rewrite everything" approach every time. Note: This session focuses specifically on web application rebuilds—not desktop or mobile apps. Come ready to discuss your own legacy challenges—we'll have time for Q&A about your specific situations.