E148: Software Refactoring in the Age of AI

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Jonathan Schneider is Co-Founder & CEO of Moderne, the platform for code migrations.

Moderne has raised up to a Series A from investors including Intel Capital and True Ventures.

In this episode, we dig into the importance of software refactoring and the security and engineering challenges that come up when code isn't maintained, why they started with Java refactoring, their rewrite open source project, how the amount of code created with GenAI has made refactoring an even bigger challenge & more!

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E148: Software Refactoring in the Age of AI

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Jonathan Schneider is Co-Founder & CEO of Moderne, the platform for code migrations.

Moderne has raised up to a Series A from investors including Intel Capital and True Ventures.

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