Hacker News: virtualramhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=virtualramHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:50:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by virtualram in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"]]>I have used AI to crank out new features. Pretty impressive in itself but what recently blew my mind is we have a legacy application where the code is spaghetti and it's difficult to fully understand it. We had a production defect which was hard to triage. I pointed copilot to the legacy source code which was in C++ and also gave it all the log files that were generated. It was able to identify the issue and propose a solution without me even walking through what the legacy app does.

Initially I was trying to do it piece by piece but it was not going anywhere and then when I just gave it the entire source code with the log files it was able to find the issue.

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