Your AI Doesn’t Know 30 Years of Your Business Logic. Here’s Why That’s a Problem.
Most legacy modernization projects don’t fail because of bad intentions. They fail because of a dangerous assumption: that AI can automatically fill in the gaps. I call it the Hybrid Trap—and it is quietly killing enterprise modernization programs right now. The pattern usually looks like this: The team manually rebuilds the target architecture, then hands the migrated code to an AI tool to “clean things up.” The result looks polished. Demos go well. Executives approve the next budget phase. Then production happens. What Nobody Talks About at the Board Level
