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January 5, 2028
In 14 monthsUpdating components from 1998 while the rest of the world evolves.
Still waiting for a modern update to VCL.
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You maintain legacy VCL applications and struggle with archaic Object Pascal syntax in an aging IDE.
The one thing AI can't do
You can still decipher why a specific TQuery component crashes on Windows 7.
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Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Week 4
AI models scan your codebase to map every undocumented component.
Month 4
System builds a schema of your tangled legacy dependencies.
Month 8
Translation engines rewrite Object Pascal into modern managed code.
Month 12
Vision agents redesign your 4:3 forms for responsive displays.
Month 14 · D-Day
Your IDE is deleted and replaced with a cloud deployment pipeline.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 98.7%
4,000+
Legacy dependency count
45
Build time (minutes)
Rarely
Documentation read
Your severance
A vintage copy of Delphi 5 on floppy disks.
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