Article for The New Stack by Darryl Taft
Making sense of legacy code is in fact one of the primary use cases of GenAI.
BMC Software’s BMC AMI DevX Code Insights tool, for example, can reveal the structure and dependencies within legacy COBOL code.
“Now that BMC has added GenAI, the tool can also make sense of the business logic behind the code and explain it in natural language,” Jason Bloomberg, an analyst at Intellyx, told The New Stack. “This capability both helps developers as they modernize legacy applications and also writes understandable documentation, both for legacy code as well as new code as the developers write it. What BMC can do for COBOL, other vendors can do with other languages.”
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