GenAI Isn't Solving the Problem Most Development Teams Actually Have (opens in new tab)

It was an afternoon when one of our reconciliation flows started throwing NullPointerExceptions in production. The fix, once we found it, was two lines. Finding those two lines took nearly six hours. Three engineers and endless log grepping. Tracing through an integration application with JSF UI that predates most of the libraries we take for granted today. No modern APIs exposed. No clean service boundary to isolate the problem. Just a chain of legacy integration points that required someone...