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Published by martinfowler.com (Exploring Gen AI series, incl. Böckeler) (T1 source). The original is at https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-05-27.html.

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Martin Fowler's May 27 fragments post highlights his GOTO Conference discussion with Kent Beck on LLM-augmented programming and what junior developers should focus on, alongside Ian Johnson's documented series restructuring a legacy Laravel+React codebase over ~3 months and ~258 commits using characterization tests, static analysis, and an AI agent shipping production code with minimal supervision.

Firsthand observations from two established software practitioners on AI-assisted programming, paired with a concrete case study showing commit-level steps for using an AI agent to modernize legacy code.

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