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Legacy tech work. I get almost no calls for modern dev stacks, but I'm kept as busy fixing and modernizing legacy apps on legacy stacks, and helping to get their data moved to a modern environment.

I'm not drowning in calls or anything - but they come in often enough to keep me working.

You could say not-well-disciplined vibe-coded projects are in the same bucket as legacy apps from day 1, right?

Honestly, no - vibe coded projects that aren't done well never launch. So if you ever reach a "Day 1", you did well enough that you can probably roll with it for a couple years before you need a rescue. And if your business survives those couple years, it means you've hit the market correctly, which should then be able to fund a project to re-architect for sustainability.

Also, vibe coded apps are almost by definition something that an AI can iterate on because it came from an LLM in the first place. Legacy apps tend to exclude LLM-based assistance because the models' training is insufficient on obscure ancient tech stacks.

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