When building autonomous modernization agents capable of re-architecting enterprise applications, parsing massive codebases, and translating legacy patterns into modern frameworks, execution time isn't measured in seconds—it's measured in hours. While …

You’re modernizing. Step one: choose a target platform and prepare to defend it until 2036. When a CTO axes a 400,000-line VB6 monster or a Clinton-era PowerBuilder setup, no one …

Here's What Changed In 2002, a tool I helped bring to market started rewriting other people's code. The VB6 Upgrade Wizard shipped inside Visual Studio .NET, built on technology from …

In case you missed it , here's what we built live, and how you can build it too. On July 17 we went live on Jeff Fritz's channel for a …

PowerBuilder has powered mission-critical business applications for more than three decades. Many of those applications still run core operations today, and the organizations that depend on them face a familiar …

The parts of PowerBuilder modernization that don't show up in a line-count. There's a comforting fiction in application migration: that a database-heavy app is mostly its queries, and if you …

Two users open the same customer record at 4:58 on a Friday. Both change the credit limit. In the PowerBuilder application that's run the business for eighteen years, the second …

Preserve Behavior, Not Just Code There's a particular kind of modernization failure that never shows up in a demo. The new application compiles. The screens render. The tests, the ones …

The Adversarial Validator A confidently wrong answer is the most expensive output an AI system can produce. In a chat interface, the cost of a hallucination is capped by human …

Breaking changes, dependency debt, and where the hours go. Here's a preview for teams planning ahead. With .NET 11 shipping in November 2026 and .NET 8 hitting end-of-life the same …