The race to fix ageing computer systems heats up with AI’s help


As much as 70% of software used by Fortune 500 companies was developed at least two decades ago, according to a December report from McKinsey. — Photo by Albert Stoynov on Unsplash

Kresimir Mudrovcic and his team of programmers spend months on end trawling through computer code that can be three times as old as the crew’s youngest members. 

Mudrovcic specialises in mainframe technology, involving computers tracing their roots to the dawn of the digital age and the ancient software that sometimes runs on them. Upgrading such systems is painstaking work, often entailing sifting through millions of lines of code to understand how specific functions operate. Mudrovcic, an IT consultant, compares it to archeology. 

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