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virtualramtoday at 4:27 AM0 repliesview on HN

I have used AI to crank out new features. Pretty impressive in itself but what recently blew my mind is we have a legacy application where the code is spaghetti and it's difficult to fully understand it. We had a production defect which was hard to triage. I pointed copilot to the legacy source code which was in C++ and also gave it all the log files that were generated. It was able to identify the issue and propose a solution without me even walking through what the legacy app does.

Initially I was trying to do it piece by piece but it was not going anywhere and then when I just gave it the entire source code with the log files it was able to find the issue.