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December 16, 2027
In 14 monthsUpdating legacy monoliths until you eventually run out of green screens.
Survivor of the terminal emulator wars and fixed-width font.
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Modernizing history into the cloud, efficiently.
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translates legacy rpg to modern microservices
Maintains arcane RPG/ILE codebases on IBM Power Systems. Manages database triggers and terminal-based interfaces for ancient back-end enterprise operations.
The one thing AI can't do
You are the only person who understands the logic of 1988's core business functions.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Day 10
AI scans all legacy RPG files to map every interdependency in the monolith.
Month 3
Automated models convert undocumented business logic into modern, readable pseudocode.
Month 7
Vision models replace terminal screens with automated web-based API wrappers.
Month 12
System ports database triggers to modern SQL environments with zero downtime.
Month 14 · D-Day
The final server is decommissioned and the legacy system ceases existence.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 96.1%
4 liters
Coffee consumed per bug
99.999 percent
Uptime of 30-year-old code
5 billion
Total remaining green-screen lines
Your severance
A vintage IBM keyboard and a retirement brochure.
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