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Rachelle Palmer

Director of Forward Deployed Engineering at MongoDB

1 episode on Chain of Thought

Rachelle Palmer

At the time of the conversation, Rachelle Palmer was Director of Product Management at MongoDB, running a forward-deployed AI engineering team. On Chain of Thought she explained how LLMs are compressing legacy code modernization from years to months by automating documentation, test generation, and business logic conversion.

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Latest episode with Rachelle Palmer · EP 14

Using AI to Modernize Your Legacy Applications | MongoDB’s Rachelle Palmer

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Another example is your code's not commented, right? You can just have LLOs add comments to code. Another example is that you don't have test coverage of your code base. And so for us, in order to prove equivalence between a legacy application and a replacement application, you actually need to generate effectively equivalent tests between your legacy app and your new modernized app.

Using AI to Modernize Your Legacy Applications | MongoDB’s Rachelle Palmer