Sharad
Sharad
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Programming

3 articles

Reverse Engineering Old Applications

Notes from opening up unfamiliar codebases, finding the seams, and making change feel less risky.

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Lessons From Reading Unfamiliar Code

A few habits for finding the important behavior before trying to improve the implementation.

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Building Internal Tools People Keep Using

Why small workflow details matter as much as the feature that motivated the project.

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What I learned stitching together retrieval, local models, and a useful interface for real questions.

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Working With Legacy Banking Systems

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What old transaction flows taught me about trust, reconciliation, and the cost of a small change.

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Why Legacy Systems Are Hard to Replace

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The technical debt is only part of the story. The people, workflows, and invisible contracts matter too.

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Building Small AI Tools That Actually Help

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AI-Assisted Business Analysis

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A practical look at where an AI copilot helps most, and where the human context still does the heavy lifting.

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