For most developers, maintaining and refactoring legacy code is all in a day’s work. But what about when the code was written by AI? Generative AI is no longer a novelty in the software development ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

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As artificial intelligence continues to advance, developers are increasingly turning to large language models (LLMs) to assist with programming tasks. Two of the most prominent models in this space ...

I refactor my own code frequently. It is often relatively easy to refactor my own code because I know my code well. In fact, the process of maintaining and reading my own code often provides the ...

Every day, software developers make decisions that they later regret. They may be tiny decisions, such as the name to use for a variable, or they may be major decisions such as the metaphor to use for ...

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Premature optimization may be the root of all evil, but these tools will make sure your code is clear, clean and secure. Testing your application before shipping is an important part of the ...

I usually try to follow the advice of the book Working Effectively with Legacy Code. I break dependencies, move parts of the code to @VisibleForTesting public static methods and to new classes to make ...

Mobilize.net recently upgraded its Visual Basic migration tool, Visual Basic Upgrade Companion, to support Visual Studio 2017. VBUC 7.2, according to the company, provides 100-percent Visual Basic 6.0 ...