Legacy is an ownership problem

In this episode

• Where Sepehr Lorestani draws the line between old code and code nobody owns
• Fixing forward as the new standard, and what changes when an agent bumps the version
• Whether a decommissioning stalls on technical difficulty or on priority
• Finding a champion with decision-maker power, borrowed from sales
• Why a saved cost reads smaller to a business than a sale of the same size
• What one migration off a data centre to serverless was estimated to save
• How Fernando Gonçalves shrank a legacy system without stopping the business
• Sepehr Lorestani’s six-point list for finishing a decommissioning
• Whether Anthropic is a useful example for anybody else
• AI for reverse engineering a system nobody owns, against AI writing new code for it
• Whether every system should be designed for its own sunset