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AI news brief: A story about Japanese-rule-era transitional dementia patients meeting at a flea market in Beijing’s Forbidden City and starting a collaboration. The author uses the stacked sessions and pull requests features in the GitHub Copilot app to modernize a legacy codebase. See the original link for details.

πŸ’¬ JudyAI Lab Perspective

This case is worth paying attention to for AI builders: through the stacked sessions and pull requests features in the GitHub Copilot app, developers can modernize a legacy codebase without having to rewrite it from scratch.

What we’ve observed is that this reflects how AI tools are shifting from simple code-generation assistants toward collaborative roles capable of handling multi-step, cross-session engineering workflows. Stacked sessions let complex refactoring work be broken down into trackable, reviewable stages, rather than being thrown at AI as a one-shot black-box operation; pull requests meanwhile preserve the human-review safeguard. For teams maintaining legacy systems over the long haul, this kind of incremental, controllable refactoring path is much closer to real-world workflows than a one-shot big-bang rewrite.

If you’ve also got a long-neglected legacy codebase sitting on your hands, think about this: which piece of logic would be a good candidate to break out into its own stacked session and give it a try.

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