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Actually that superhuman AI is already here.

> Copilot agent mode can create apps from scratch, perform refactorings across multiple files, write and run tests, and migrate legacy code to modern frameworks.

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/02/24/introducing-c...

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I wonder if the relative lack of training data makes this harder for AI. Most of these legacy apps are in private repositories, so there’s nothing for GitHub to scrape to identify the before/after.

And if Microsoft is creating synthetic data, that won’t account for the truly awful ways in which enterprise software evolves (or devolves).

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