it’s joyless, but AI seems great at old legacy software integration and sustainment. Companies have old packages they cannot move off very easily/quickly, lots

it’s joyless, but AI seems great at old legacy software integration and sustainment. Companies have old packages they cannot move off very easily/quickly, lots of legacy data, and AI is very good at coming up with creative ways to sustain/integrate them, and in the process automate the most skull-numbing/laborious/high-risk aspects of that work. (I’m dealing with +20yo packages right now, doing things I NEVER would have agreed to even attempt in a pre-AI world.) Proprietary data formats, obscure protocols, nothing is a show-stopper anymore. No fun, but pays the bills.