AI Won't Save a Legacy Stack
Originally published on LinkedIn, April 4, 2026. Republished here as the canonical version. TL;DR: AI doesn’t fix legacy infrastructure — it exposes it. Companies struggling with AI adoption aren’t struggling because of the AI. They’re struggling because of a decade of deferred platform work sitting underneath it. Modernization is no longer a backlog item. It’s the prerequisite. AI doesn’t fix legacy. It exposes it. I’ve spent 25 years inside the systems that keep Fortune-150 companies running — the integrations, the API platforms, the governance frameworks, the middleware nobody wants to touch. I’ve been the person called in when something breaks at scale, when nobody knows why, and when the pressure to “just make it work” is coming from every direction at once. ...